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Re: 1.1 upgrade addendum..

  Dale> Exactly. I'm confused about the packages file. When dselect does an
  Dale> "Update Packages File", what is it actually doing? 

Gee, getting the newest info about dependencies et al, of course. That info
goes into the files in /var/lib/dpkg, I presume.

  Dale> In the above debacle, binary/base had a sub directory
  Dale> binary/base/holding where conflicting, out of date, and replaced
  Dale> packages were being held.  Dselect dove down into holding and tried
  Dale> to install whatever it could find there.

That is _your_ fault, Dale. The holding dir was a subdir of Incoming where
stuff was parking because *it was not ready for installation* for various
reaseons. If you install that nevertheless, don't complain.

Dselect's [A]ccess is pretty clear --- it wants the binary, the non-free and
the contrib trees. This are supposedly clean, and have a correct, non-corrupt
Package file.

  Dale> It is quite clear that dselect does a better job, installing a new,
  Dale> bare, uncluttered system, than it is at upgrading an existing
  Dale> system.

It works fine for me *provided I keep my house in order* and don't feed
garbage to the hungry beast.

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Dirk Eddelb"uttel                              http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd