On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 09:09:22AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > I was able to get around this, but I DO NOT recommend that anyone use > my method!! If you do, don't tell me about how screwed up your system > got.
It worked fine for me, on a fresh install of slink (2.1r4 CDs) upgrading to woody. Thank you very much for a solution to this problem! :) > I created a file "/usr/bin/readlink" with the following contents: > > #! /bin/sh > true > > dpkg --force-depends -i libc6_2.1.3-4_i386.deb > apt-get -f install > > Luckily, everything still worked, and I was able to proceed to > `apt-get upgrade', etc. apt-get dist-upgrade had been dieing on me with the pre-depend error message. BTW, timezones and stuff didn't even break when I did this. I'm very impressed by the robustness of the package system at recovering from my attempts to coerce it to proceed ;-) One reason this might have worked so well for me was that the slink system had very few packages installed at the time, so there wasn't a lot to break. (except apt, which survived :) I suppose the solution to this problem is to find a way to not use readlink, so libc6 doesn't need to depend on a version of debianutils not available in slink, or else the slink debian utils needs to have readlink added so the libc6 pre-inst can use it. (I really don't know debian very well yet, so this might not make sense... sorry.) I don't know if feature-add upgrades to slink are kosher, but it seems to me that it would be a good idea to make it so that one can upgrade from slink by apt-get upgrade'ing slink to the latest version of all slink things, then apt-get dist-upgrade after changing sources.list. The current situation is not good, because I imagine a lot of people have a slink CD, and use it to install systems that will be upgraded to potato or woody. hmm. -- #define X(x,y) x##y DUPS Secretary ; http://is2.dal.ca/~dups/ Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , dal.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
