[Slapt-get-user] Interesting dist-upgrade corner case

Mamading Ceesay slapt-get-user@software.jaos.org
Mon, 29 Dec 2003 17:18:51 +0000


Hi,

I've just noticed that when doing a --dist-upgrade from 9.0 to 9.1, coreutils is installed, but sh-utils, fileutils and textutils (which have been replaced by coreutils) aren't removed.

removepkg got rid of them without any harm done.  Possibly another entry for the FAQ, I think.

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