Re: circular dependencies and dist-upgrades sarge->woody

2005-01-31 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Steve Langasek wrote: >> > There is one case in which users can be bitten by this: when using apt-get >> > dist-upgrade to sarge, so when documenting the woody-sarge upgrade, it >> > should >> > be at least mentioned that the user can run into this and

Re: circular dependencies and dist-upgrades sarge->woody

2005-01-31 Thread Martin Schulze
Steve Langasek wrote: > > There is one case in which users can be bitten by this: when using apt-get > > dist-upgrade to sarge, so when documenting the woody-sarge upgrade, it > > should > > be at least mentioned that the user can run into this and should first > > upgrade apt to solve this proble

Re: circular dependencies and dist-upgrades sarge->woody

2005-01-29 Thread Henning Glawe
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 02:26:45PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > There is one case in which users can be bitten by this: when using apt-get > > dist-upgrade to sarge, so when documenting the woody-sarge upgrade, it > > should > > be at least mentioned that the user can run into this and should

Re: circular dependencies and dist-upgrades sarge->woody

2005-01-29 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 12:24:43PM +0100, Henning Glawe wrote: > > > I must have some supernatural powers to always attract the same bug: woodys > > apt fed too short lists into dpkg and thus broke the configuration of > > circular depending packages (N

Re: circular dependencies and dist-upgrades sarge->woody

2005-01-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 12:24:43PM +0100, Henning Glawe wrote: > I must have some supernatural powers to always attract the same bug: woodys > apt fed too short lists into dpkg and thus broke the configuration of > circular depending packages (Note: "dpkg --configure blah blubb", where blah > depe

circular dependencies and dist-upgrades sarge->woody

2005-01-29 Thread Henning Glawe
Moin, I must have some supernatural powers to always attract the same bug: woodys apt fed too short lists into dpkg and thus broke the configuration of circular depending packages (Note: "dpkg --configure blah blubb", where blah depends on blubb and blubb depends on blah works; if you try to run it