Re: tar replaces cpio in unstable

2001-11-24 Thread Dave Carrigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Natkins) writes: > tar replaces cpio in unstable. You may not want to do this. In dselect, put a hold on tar (the = key) until the new cpio gets up. Then, you won't see any mass un-installs. -- Dave Carrigan| Yow! Well, I'm on the right Lead

Re: tar replaces cpio in unstable

2001-11-24 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 24-Nov-2001 David Natkins wrote: > tar replaces cpio in unstable. You may not want to do this. > see my post yesterday on the thread "tar conflicts with cpio" for an explanation.

Re: tar replaces cpio in unstable

2001-11-24 Thread Craig Dickson
David Natkins wrote: > tar replaces cpio in unstable. You may not want to do this. We went over this yesterday here on the list. Tar does not exactly replace cpio, it simply insists that you get a newer cpio, which does not yet exist. Why it cares about cpio at all, I do not know. For myself, I

Re: tar replaces cpio in unstable

2001-11-24 Thread Hank Marquardt
Yeah, there seems to be some breakage in unstable today -- not too sure what the chicken/egg is yet, but on my box anyway dpkg-dev, driving cpio and all of gs are fubared at the moment -- A box I dist-upgraded yesterday had 50 packages held back (mostly kde stuff) and *will not* upgrade today as i