After running an apt-get update in woody, I ran an apt-get -s
dist-upgrade to see which packages were going to be upgraded, and I was
given this error message:
E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the essential
package libpam-modules due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This is
often bad, but if you really want to do it, activate the
APT::Force-LoopBreak option.
E: Internal Error, Could not early remove libpam-modules
Looking in man apt.conf, I see this:
Force-LoopBreak
Never Enable this option unless you -really- know
what you are doing. It permits APT to temporarily
remove an essential package to break a
Conflicts/Conflicts or Conflicts/Pre-Depend loop
between two essential packages. SUCH A LOOP SHOULD
NEVER EXIST AND IS A GRAVE BUG. This option will
work if the essential packages are not tar, gzip,
libc, dpkg, bash or anything that those packages
depend on.
Okay, so I can't dist-upgrade because of a problem that I shouldn't work
around because it's "A GRAVE BUG" and I don't "-really- know" what I'm
doing -- so, what am I supposed to do?
--
Tom
"No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern; no idea is so
modern that it will not someday be antiquated."
-Ellen Glasgow
