Re: serious package management problem

2001-11-25 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 01:22:57PM +0100, A.R. (Tom) Peters wrote: > > I think this is what happenend to my system. I tried to install > > whatever was the current g77 compiler. It required libc6-2.2.4-5; I had a > > lower version, which got replaced. Bu

Re: serious package management problem

2001-11-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 01:22:57PM +0100, A.R. (Tom) Peters wrote: > I think this is what happenend to my system. I tried to install > whatever was the current g77 compiler. It required libc6-2.2.4-5; I had a > lower version, which got replaced. But this broke (ba)sh, version 2.05-8, > which dep

serious package management problem

2001-11-25 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
Consider this scenario: Program P1V1 depends on P2V1; both are installed and work fine. Now you install P3V2: it depends on a newer version of P2: P2V2; this gets automatically replaced. But P2V2 no longer works with P1V1. What is supposed to happen in this case? I think this is what happenend