On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Josip Rodin wrote: > Indeed. I've added this paragraph to the top of "Possible issues during or > after upgrade" section in the Release Notes: > > <p>Sometimes it's necessary to enable APT::Force-LoopBreak option in APT > to be able to temporarily remove an essential package due to a > Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. <prgn/apt-get/ will alert you of this and > abort the upgrade. You can work around that by adding something like > <tt>APT::Force-LoopBreak "true";</tt> in <file>/etc/apt/apt.conf</file> > or by specifying <tt>-o APT::Force-LoopBreak=1</tt> option on > <prgn/apt-get/ command line. > > (if anything's wrong with the above _please_ contact me before today's > dinstall run)
Remove the bit about adding it to the config file, nobody should do that, it is a one time only thing to work around pam's screwy dependencies which should be fixed.. Jason
