On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 09:21:48AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe 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
OK. > to work around pam's screwy dependencies which should be fixed.. And perl stuff, too. I wonder how come so many things are broken and nobody filed RC bugs regarding it... -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
