On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, J Sigbrandt wrote: > Hi, > > Just read the document which I came across by chance: > > http://panic.et.tudelft.nl/~costar/potato/upgrade-i386/UPGRADING.html > > Shouldn't it be part of the potato release notes?
It is merged already. > I came across a problem when upgrading ... after issuing 'apt-get > dist-upgrade' it complained with: > > E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the essential > package libpam0g due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This is often bad, > but if you really want to do it, activate the APT::Force-LoopBreak option. > E: Internal Error, Could not early remove libpam0g > > Having searched the net, I see that others have had the same problem and > that one proposed solution is to issue this command: > > apt-get -o apt::force-loopbreak=1 dist-upgrade > > (from <http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/Archivum/linux-200002/msg00176.html>) > > Note the '=1' which is required but isn't mentioned in the error message. > Also, the docs in version 0.3.19 of apt, don't include any info about > Force-LoopBreak. > > I haven't proceeded any further at this stage, so cannot confirm whether > the above works. Hmmm. Josip: this seems important enough to add a note to release-notes. Also Cc:'d to the apt maint, maybe he can provide more info (or updated docs ;-) Regards, Anne Bezemer
