Package: apt Version: 0.1.9 If you run apt-get dist-upgrade with the -m (--ignore-missing) option, this option is ignored.
My situation: I have a CD with a broken xemacs20_common package. So in order to get past this (I'm at the wrong end of a 33.6k modem:-() I said: % apt-get -m dist-upgrade But after finding that xemacs20_common... is broken, it always gives an error message and dies. gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1 dpkg: error processing /cdrom/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/editors/xemacs20-support_20.4-11.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: /cdrom/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/editors/xemacs20-support_20.4-11.deb E: Sub-process returned an error code Rgds! Luke Diamand
