Re: dpkg/apt-get madness

1998-11-04 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 12:39:30PM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: > how to I make the package management system believe that package > emacs20 no longer exist? Perhaps hack /var/lib/dpkg/status, changing "install reinstall conffiles" [or whatever] to "install ok not-installed"? Note: I am not on a D

Re: dpkg/apt-get madness

1998-11-03 Thread Helge Hafting
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 11/02/98 at 05:10 PM, "E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >I seemed to remember that the X11 maintainer specifically mailed to this >list that the slink X packages were severely broken and only to be used >by brave peoply meaning to help with the debuggi

Re: dpkg/apt-get madness

1998-11-02 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > > Packages were downloaded and processing started, then the trouble began: > > I noticed that "startx" disappeared! > > I seemed to remember that the X11 maintainer specifically mailed to this > list that the slink X packages were severely broke

Re: dpkg/apt-get madness

1998-11-02 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > I tried "apt-get dist-upgrade" in order to upgrade to slink. > Yes, I know slink is "unstable" so I might get some trouble. > > Packages were downloaded and processing started, then the trouble began: > I noticed that "startx" disappeared! I seemed to remember that the X11 maintainer spe

dpkg/apt-get madness

1998-11-02 Thread Helge Hafting
I tried "apt-get dist-upgrade" in order to upgrade to slink. Yes, I know slink is "unstable" so I might get some trouble. Packages were downloaded and processing started, then the trouble began: I noticed that "startx" disappeared! Ok, this is probably temporary, I thought. The new xserver pa