Re: tar conflicts with cpio

2001-11-23 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 23-Nov-2001 Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > On Fri, 2001-11-23 at 15:30, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >> >> On 23-Nov-2001 Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: >> > What's the story with tar? The new package conflicts with cpio, and by >> > extension much of GNOME. I'm not aware of inherent conflicts between >>

Re: tar conflicts with cpio

2001-11-23 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Fri, 2001-11-23 at 15:30, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 23-Nov-2001 Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > What's the story with tar? The new package conflicts with cpio, and by > > extension much of GNOME. I'm not aware of inherent conflicts between > > cpio and tar: in my experience they are ortho

Re: tar conflicts with cpio

2001-11-23 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 23-Nov-2001 Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > What's the story with tar? The new package conflicts with cpio, and by > extension much of GNOME. I'm not aware of inherent conflicts between > cpio and tar: in my experience they are orthogonal or at least > complementary. Why do they now conflict? >

Re: tar conflicts with cpio

2001-11-23 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
y do they now conflict? > tar conflicts with cpio (<= 2.4.2-38) The probable cause is tar and cpio swapped a file. Without the conflicts dpkg would complain about a file in one package appearing in the other. I am currently unable to download the source for tar to check its changelog.

tar conflicts with cpio

2001-11-23 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
What's the story with tar? The new package conflicts with cpio, and by extension much of GNOME. I'm not aware of inherent conflicts between cpio and tar: in my experience they are orthogonal or at least complementary. Why do they now conflict?