At 9:41 pm, Wednesday, September 18 2002, Ken Caldwell mumbled:
> Apt-get dselect-upgrade cannot upgrade fileutils, shellutils or
> textutils because to do so it must first install the new package
> coreutils. coreutils conflicts with stat which is provided by the old
> fileutils. coreutils provides stat. The error message says that the
> dependency loop may be avoided by activating the
> APT::Force-LoopBreak option
> The message also comes with a dire warning that bad things can happen if
> you try this. Does anyone on the list know if it is safe to try this in
> this case?
>
The joys of running unstable.
My advice is to *LEAVE* *IT* until tomorrow, when the fixed versions will be
installed into the archive.
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Steve
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