This is probably the result of a very outdated chroot tarball, but it's rather disturbing.
--- chroot:/# apt-get install emacs21 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: bsdmainutils dpkg emacsen-common libfreetype6 libjpeg62 liblockfile1 libpng2 libtiff3g libungif4g xaw3dg xfree86-common xlibs The following packages will be REMOVED: sysvinit The following NEW packages will be installed: bsdmainutils emacs21 emacsen-common libfreetype6 libjpeg62 liblockfile1 libpng2 libtiff3g libungif4g xaw3dg xfree86-common xlibs The following held packages will be changed: dpkg WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! sysvinit (due to dpkg) 1 packages upgraded, 12 newly installed, 1 to remove and 56 not upgraded. Need to get 18.0MB of archives. After unpacking 58.5MB will be used. You are about to do something potentially harmful To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!' ?] no Abort. --- This same behavior occurs when I try to install emacs20 or 21. If I agree to removing sysvinit, dpkg is in trouble, because it doesn't like not having update-rc.d in its path. Any thoughts on what might be causing this, and/or whether it is a symptom of something that should be fixed in sid? Here is the sources.list. I've tried with http.us.d.o in the first line; no difference. --- deb http://archive.progeny.com/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb http://archive.progeny.com/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free deb-src http://archive.progeny.com/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb-src http://archive.progeny.com/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free --- -- John R. Daily Progeny Linux Systems Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Master of the ephemeral epiphany
