On 03-Jul-99 Christian Dysthe wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to do a dselect update on my potato box today. New Perl debs caused > a > lot of trouble. > > After dselect saw the new Perl's it wanted to remove A LOT of (important) > packages so I had to say no to the upgrade. Then I tried to freeze the Perl > upgrade to be able to do the other avaialble upgrades, but no go. whatever I > do > dselect wants to do major changes to my system. Some Perl packages described > as > "fake" confuse me, and I have given up using dselect at all right now since > whatever I try to do means all these packages will be removed and I am not > able > to freeze the old Perl with ='s in a way that leaves my installation intact. > > Should I wait until other packages "catch up" with the new Perl > installation? If > I have a lot of packages marked for removal right now. I guess I will have > to > go through it all and mark them installed again also? > > Help needed! :) TIA
Same here, only two packages were removed though. I won't know if the system is broken until something goes wrong, but I believe the removal of the two Python packages was correct. -- Andrew
