Problem upgrading to test2
Carl Youngblood
carl at youngbloods.org
Tue Apr 20 20:13:57 UTC 2004
Is this the wrong mailing list to post a question like this? If so,
where would be a good place to do it?
Thanks,
Carl Youngblood
Carl Youngblood wrote:
> Hello, I've been following the instructions in an article on
> fedoranews.org that explains how to update one's system from Fedora
> core 1 to core 2 test 1, only I'm trying to do it for test 2 instead
> of test1 (the instructions are basically the same--I just need to
> download the apt rpm from a different location).
>
> The article is here:
>
> http://fedoranews.org/ghenry/apt-fc2/
>
> I can get as far as being able to run apt-get update with no apparent
> problems. However, when I try to run apt-get dist-upgrade, I get a
> long list of proposed changes and then an error message like this:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> kernel#2.6.5-1.322: PreDepends: fileutils
> PreDepends: module-init-tools
> PreDepends: initscripts (>= 5.83) but it is not
> going to be installed
> PreDepends: mkinitrd (>= 3.5.5) but it is not
> going to be installed
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> E: Internal Error, InstallPackages was called with broken packages!
>
> Apparently these packages are part of the coreutils package, which
> can't be removed without hosing the system. Does anyone know a way
> that I can get around this? Right now my apt is in an unusable state
> because it's core 2 test 2's apt but it's running on core 1.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Carl Youngblood
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