Re: apt-get -f dist-upgrade removing dpkg-dev

2001-11-30 Thread Lupe Christoph
On Friday, 2001-11-30 at 08:57:30 -0700, Daniel Farnsworth Teichert wrote: > This is probably a terrible, klutzy, inept thing to do--but > I had a similar problem with unstable a bit ago, and after a > few days I just let it have its head, uninstall what it liked, > and I just kept track of the pac

Re: apt-get -f dist-upgrade removing dpkg-dev

2001-11-30 Thread Daniel Farnsworth Teichert
So-and-so (Daniel Farnsworth Teichert) said thus-and-such: > This is probably a terrible, klutzy, inept thing to do--but > I had a similar problem with unstable a bit ago, and after a > few days I just let it have its head, uninstall what it liked, > and I just kept track of the packages and re-ins

Re: apt-get -f dist-upgrade removing dpkg-dev

2001-11-30 Thread Daniel Farnsworth Teichert
This is probably a terrible, klutzy, inept thing to do--but I had a similar problem with unstable a bit ago, and after a few days I just let it have its head, uninstall what it liked, and I just kept track of the packages and re-installed the. Then it worked fine. There it is, FWIW. --Daniel S

apt-get -f dist-upgrade removing dpkg-dev

2001-11-30 Thread Bryan K. Walton
This morning, I ran a apt-get -f -s dist-upgrade on my laptop running testing. Here is what apt-get wants to do: work-linux:/home/walton# apt-get -f -s dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages will be REMOVED:

Removing dpkg-dev!

2001-10-26 Thread Glyn Millington
Greetings! Whilst upgrading to the unstable version of dpkg (he box is otherwise stable) I thought i my innocence that I might as well do dpkg-dev. It wants things which I haven't got, and so I'm unpacked but not installed. Lots of nice thing seem to depend on dpkg-dev! How do I do a downgrade