hi, i'm upgrading a few things in an old (unstable) potato distribution. at the moment, i'm pointing to the currently-unstable packages. perl is giving me trouble, in such a way that apt bombs out.
here's the bug: rgrant:/usr/doc# apt-get -o apt::forceloopbreak=true -q dselect-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... The following packages will be REMOVED: 2utf apache dialog gmp2 liblockdev0-perl libmd5-perl libpam0g-dbg* libpam0g-dev* libpam0g-util libpgsql libpgtcl locales menu modconf perl postgresql-dev pppconfig w3mir whiptail www-pgsql www-search The following NEW packages will be installed: apache-common apache-perl apt-show-source debconf freetype2 ifupdown ipchains ipmasqadm libbz2-1.0 libconvert-ber-perl libdb2-util libdevel-symdump-perl libdigest-md5-perl libgd1 libgmp2 libhtml-parser-perl libhtml-tagset-perl libjpeg62 libldap2 libmon-perl libnewt0 libnss-db libpam-modules libpam-runtime libpcre3 libpgsql2 libpopt0 libsasl-modules libsasl7 libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 libterm-slang-perl libterm-stool-perl liburi-perl libwrap0 net-tools netkit-inetd netkit-ping netkit-rpc perl-5.005 perl-5.005-base perl-5.005-doc portmap qmtpssh rc rcs slang1 ssh-nonfree tcpd traceroute The following held packages will be changed: libnewt0 libpopt0 60 packages upgraded, 49 newly installed, 21 to remove and 453 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/28.6MB of archives. After unpacking 6977kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the essential package perl-base 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 perl-base rgrant:/usr/doc# perl-base is 5.004.04-6 apt is 0.3.19 perl-5.005-base is 5.005.03-7.1 i can provide any other info necessary. thanks for any help or workarounds, - Ryan
