Re: Testing wants to remove most of my system...

2001-03-08 Thread Colin Watson
Damon Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've been tracking testing, but only sporadically. It's probably 2 weeks >or so since I last did an upgrade. > >When I attempted it today (using dist-upgrade), it looked like apt >wanted to remove most of my system. If you get mad dist-upgrade problems - us

Re: Testing wants to remove most of my system...

2001-03-08 Thread kmself
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.

RE: Testing wants to remove most of my system...

2001-03-07 Thread Joris Lambrecht
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 7:00 PM To: Damon Muller Cc: Debian User List Subject: Re: Testing wants to remove most of my system... Damon Muller wrote: > Quoth Joey Hess, > > >> It's impossible to tell what you're running into since you didn'

Re: Testing wants to remove most of my system...

2001-03-07 Thread Kent West
Damon Muller 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 cha

Re: Testing wants to remove most of my system...

2001-03-07 Thread Damon Muller
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 some

Re: Testing wants to remove most of my system...

2001-03-06 Thread Joey Hess
Damon Muller wrote: > I'm guessing that the issue is perl related, as the new packages to be > installed were all perl ones. > > Is there any way to work around this (just do an upgrade, rather than a > dist-upgrade and ignore all the ones that have been held back?)? It's impossible to tell what