On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 11:01:03AM +0200, Joachim Nilsson wrote: > > I ran into a bit of trouble due to all this. Apt-get today first upgraded > > dpkg to 1.9.17 and then wanted to upgrade the Hurd package. I got a basic > > catch-22 situation since the new dpkg wanted update-rc.d in the Hurd, but > > the Hurd was not going to be installed ... well. > > > > To be honest, I knew that such problems would occure. I wanted to add a > Replace: dpkg header to the Hurd, which would make it possible to update the > Hurd package before installing dpkg. This would not have helped the > dpkg-is-upgraded-first case, though. > > I think it should work to upgrade hurd first with --force-overwrite enabled, > then dpkg. > > As I said before, I am not very motivated to catch and fix such transient > problems before the first release (or at least before fixation of the glibc > ABI). I am not even sure there is a fix that doesn't involve changing > dpkg.
A quick initial test suggests that installing libc0.2 and hurd simultaniously with dpkg -i works when upgrading the intitial installation of the tarball. I am working on the F4 images at the moment. Phil. - Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Dunedin, New Zealand; +64 3 4882818 Mobile 025 267 9420. I sell GNU/Linux CDs. See http://www.copyleft.co.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
