On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 01:40:42PM +0530, Prabhu Ramachandran wrote: > hi, > > >>>>> "Marcus" == Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> install the hurd package (000921) I get an conflict error: > >> "shellutils conflicts with login (<< 19990827-1)" "hurd > >> provides login and is to be installed" > >> > >> "conflicting packages - not installing hurd" > > Marcus> Yes, it's a bug in dpkg and Ben Collins is investigating > Marcus> this. When we have a solution, I will upload a new dpkg > Marcus> package. For now, you can try to edit /var/lib/dpkg/status > Marcus> and remove the login entry in the shellutils conflict > Marcus> line. > > Wouldnt it be better to do > > # cd /var/cache/apt/archives/ > # dpkg --force-conflicts -i hurd_20000921.deb > # apt-get upgrade
If this works, yes. I am not sure if apt will be happy though (It tends to check all dependencies of the whole system, stricter than dpkg). Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org for public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
