Until the uutils bugs are resolved or build-essential accepts coreutils- from-gnu, you can use "equivs" to create your own build-essential-gnu metapackage and then "apt-mark hold" to keep it from being replaced. I have listed detailed steps for this at https://askubuntu.com/a/1566572/1084644
Manually replacing the metapackage will create a stability/security problem, but so does using coreutils-from-uutils on an LTS release; rock and hard place... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2148691 Title: build-essential depends on coreutils-from-uutils so it can't be upgraded if you have coreutils-from-gnu instead To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/build-essential/+bug/2148691/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
