On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 09:40:41PM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > For over a month now, the gcc package has appeared in my apt-get upgrade > > even though there is no new version available. This is quite strange. > > [clip] > > > As you can see, I just upgraded it twice and it STILL claims that it needs > > to upgrade it. Each time it will dutifully haul down the package, unpack > > and configure it... > > > > Is anyone else having this problem? > > Yes. I've noticed that too. I haven't looked into it though. > > The gcc Packages description has been wacked for a while. It doesn't play > nicely with egcs64. I've been editing /var/lib/dpkg/status manually to > repair the conflict after each upgrade, which isn't something I really like > to be doing. I don't know if this is a related problem or not.
Yeah, it's the same issue. It was supposed to conflict with egcs64 (<< ...) but instead it is (< ...), which is improper, and apt-get sees it as a different version of gcc, plus it is read as "<=", which makes it conflict with the current egcs64. Ben
