On Tue, 21 May 2002 15:25:49 -0700 Andrew Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Forgive my frustration with this, but why bother having a bug > reporting and tracking system if the bugs reported are just to be > blown off with flip remarks like "apt just installs packages. It > doesn't remove files from other packages." It certainly removes files > under many circumstances, including during upgrading and during > removing operations. *I* certainly didn't delete /usr/bin/vim. > > This bug report isn't vague, but it is very simple. I've upgraded at > least five potato installations to woody, on i386, powerpc and sparc, > and only this time has this happened. Vim was there and installed in > potato and used daily. System was upgraded to woody. /usr/bin/vim > and all other related files and links are now deleted, and no new > files are installed in their place. The new, woody, version of vim > was NOT installed. This is fairly serious(or maybe just seriously > annoying). After the upgrade, dselect showed the old, 5.6.070 version > of vim is (supposedly) installed, but of course the files aren't > there. You ARE being vague. Tell me what you are really experiencing not what you think you are experiencing. Does # update-alternatives --config vi fix it ? What does /usr/bin/vi point to, and /etc/alternatives/vi point to ? (hint, use ls -l ) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

