Re: sarge uninstallable !?!

2005-12-04 Thread A Mennucc
ops turns out that in both cases they where using a pre-release, namely, .disk/info contains Debian GNU/Linux testing Sarge - Official Snapshot i386 Binary-1 (20041121) :- turn off red alarm a. On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 04:09:49PM +0100, debdev wrote: hi everybody two friends of mine tried

Re: sarge uninstallable !?!

2005-12-04 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 12/4/05, A Mennucc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ops turns out that in both cases they where using a pre-release, namely, .disk/info contains Debian GNU/Linux testing Sarge - Official Snapshot i386 Binary-1 (20041121) Apparently that wasn't obvious. Shouldn't it be made more clear what

Re: sarge uninstallable !?!

2005-12-04 Thread A Mennucc
On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 12:11:13PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: On 12/4/05, A Mennucc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apparently that wasn't obvious. Shouldn't it be made more clear what version is being used? yes, I was thinking the same... maybe it would be useful if the installer snapshots

sarge uninstallable !?!

2005-12-02 Thread A Mennucc
hi everybody two friends of mine tried (separately) to install sarge using the netinst cdrom, and failed in both cases, the first part of the install was OK, but, after reboot, when APT was called to upgrade the system, it stopped claiming: E: This installation run will require temporarily

Re: sarge uninstallable !?!

2005-12-02 Thread Florian Weimer
* A. Mennucc: in both cases, the first part of the install was OK, but, after reboot, when APT was called to upgrade the system, it stopped claiming: E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the essential package e2fsprogs due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This is

Re: sarge uninstallable !?!

2005-12-02 Thread A Mennucc
That day, Florian Weimer wrote I've seen this as well, but attributed it to an old sarge installer which used testing instead of sarge (or stable) in the installed sources.list file. In this case, an update from a pre-sarge testing snapshot (is installed by the base system) to a current etch

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2005-12-02 Thread James Vega
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 06:35:19PM +0100, A Mennucc wrote: That day, Florian Weimer wrote By the way, your Mail-Followup-To: header is broken. thanks;some time ago I decided to abide by http://larve.net/people/hugo/2000/07/ml-mutt but I forgot to fix this account So, shouldn't your