How to get apt to ignore "obsoletes" rpms...

Aaron Gaudio prothonotar at tarnation.dyndns.org
Thu Jul 29 22:49:30 UTC 2004


Oh well, nothing seemed to work, so I just changed the name of the
dhcpcd package to dhcpcd_obsolete and rebuilt it. Problem solved.

On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 08:23 -0700, mike at thexxxhost.com wrote:
> There are a couple of options for apt-get that may fit your needs
> 
> --force-yes
> --ignore-hold
> 
> Not sure which would help the best. You can view he descriptions for these
> options using man apt-get.
> 
> 
> Quoting Satish Balay <balay at fastmail.fm>:
> 
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Aaron Gaudio wrote:
> >
> > > I've installed dhcpcd as a workaround to a problem with dhclient and
> > > ethernet aliases. Now, whenever I try to apt-get upgrade, it complains
> > > that dhcpcd is obsoleted by dhclient but is still isntalled. Is there
> > > any way to configure apt to ignore this?
> >
> > don't know about apt - but yum doesn't bother with obsoletes for
> > already installed packages..
> >
> > Satish
> >
> >
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Aaron Gaudio <prothonotar at tarnation.dyndns.org>
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