on Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 05:17:15PM +1100, Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Quoth Joey Hess, > > > It's impossible to tell what you're running into since you didn't bother > > to post the actual apt message or any useful diagnostic information, but > > you might try removing base-config. > > Sorry, didn't include the (quite long) output previously on the off chance > that it was something simple/obvious. The full apt-get output is included > below. > > [rei:~]% sudo apt-get dist-upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Calculating Upgrade... Done > The following packages will be REMOVED: > a2ps acct adduser alien arts auctex balsa bonobo bsdmainutils bubblemon
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> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> libperl5.6 perl perl-5.6 perl-modules
> The following packages have been kept back
> fetchmail kernel-image-2.2.17
> The following packages will be upgraded
> acroread bsdutils catdoc cron debian-policy diff docbook-stylesheets eperl
> fftw2 file groff hdparm ibritish ispell libhdf4g libio-stringy-perl
> libmime-base64-perl libmime-perl libmldbm-perl libstringlist0
> libtimedate-perl libxml-dev libxml1 mlock mount mutt net-tools oidentd pdksh
> perl-5.005-base perl-base shellutils ssystem stat sudo tcsh tcsh-i18n unhtml
> untex util-linux w3m wavtools wenglish xdaliclock xnetload
> 45 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 248 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
> 2 packages not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 19.0MB of archives. After unpacking 528MB will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Hmmm...
Any chance you've got aptitude installed? Is there a common dependency
or conflict that several of the to-be-removed files share? Do you have
an old(er) version of your system package status file you can recover
to?
I just checked what my unstable system wants to do on a dist-upgrade
(not positive if I'd updated yet tonight, re-running that right now...).
OK, it's still relatively sane:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root]$ apt-get dist-upgrade -s | less
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libgtkhtml-data libgtkhtml7
The following packages have been kept back
distributed-net mutt tkstep8.0 xfs-xtt xlibosmesa3
21 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not
upgraded.
81 packages not fully installed or removed.
...you try another apt-get update to see if that cleans up anything?
If you do have a corrupted dpkg archive, what's the recommended
procedure for clearing that up, anyone?
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