On 15-May-99 Bryan Scaringe wrote: > Another stupid dselect question: > > I have upgraded my system to potato. Now, whenever I start up dselect, > (using apt-get, and set to the unstable branch), nearly everything > is set to "remove" by default. I'm talking about required stuff > like "bash" and "tar"! I know I can go through by hand and fix it, > but this seems like an ass-backwards way. If I wanted to remove a > package, > I'd have to fix everything by hand or risk trashing damn-near everything > on my system. Considering the number of packages, that could take days.
Did you upgrade with 'dist-upgrade' or with some other command? Even I did not experience anything this bad. I have a few problems, but I think apt-get is great. I did have to manually install a few held back packages for which I did not have requisite packages installed, though. I did # apt-get update # apt-get dist-upgrade -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]
