On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 04:17:17PM -0500, Carl Reynolds wrote:
Axel Thimm wrote:
>.... remove all overlapping i386 packages. For servers that don't need
>openoffice
>or HelixPlayer that's not a major loss.
>
>
http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/show_bug.cgi?id=326
>
http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/show_bug.cgi?id=334
>
>See
>
>
http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/show_bug.cgi?id=334#c2
>
>for how to make your system "singlelib".
>
Sorry to be silent on this for so long, I have been trying to use Axel's
advice. The technique outlined in bug report 334 allowed me to remove
all duplicate packages and allowed
apt-get update
to complete with no errors or warnings.
However, when I run
apt-get dist-upgrade
it offers to remove my entire system
I've included the output from the command below, but I'm thinking of
switching over to yum. It seems to work better on this system.
Why does apt-get say it wants to remove all those packages? I especially
don't understand what's happening with bash, grep, sed, gawk, etc.
Shouldn't those be left alone? As you can see I aborted the run when it
asked me if I wanted to continue.
Try
apt-get check
first to see, whether apt detects something irregular in the rpm
database. Then try
apt-get upgrade
(no dist). Any packages "held back" are candidated to have caused the
panic to apt-get dist-upgrade.
--
Axel.Thimm at
ATrpms.net