Hi,
Unforunately, this is not the case. In this case, libc *Pre*
depends on deibanutils, and debianutils *Pre* depends on libc.
I have already submitted a bug report against libc.
This little bug will prevent apt to upgrade from slink to
potato, becuase apt-get cannot resolve the predependency loop.
Shao.
David Z. Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Fred R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Fred> I'm trying to install the package to upgrade the glibc 2.1.3 on my
> Fred> machine but I get a message that I need to install debinnutils first. So
> Fred> I tried to install that package and it tells me the I need to upgrade my
> Fred> libc to >=2.1. So what do I do now? Which comes first chicken or egg?
>
> "Yes." This will work fine if you put them both on the same command
> line, e.g. 'dpkg --install libc*.deb debianutils*.deb'. Note that
> lots of things might have explicit dependencies on the older version
> of libc6, and other things might not have declared dependencies but
> will break anyways with the newer libc; if you have the bandwidth and
> don't mind some potential brokenness, it might be worth upgrading to
> the frozen preparing-for-release "potato" distribution (if you're
> using APT, change "stable" to "frozen" in /etc/apt/sources.list).
>
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