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Re: another (maybe) mess

In your email to me, Guy Maor, you wrote:
> 
> sailer@sun10.sep.bnl.gov (Tim Sailer) writes:
> 
> > I just tried to upgrade an old pre1.1 box to the latest. Seems the old
> > dpkg barfs on the ':' in the version.. So.. I tried to install the new
> > dpkg (.7) by hand.. guess what? It still doesn't work due to the *old*
> > dselect crapping out on the ':'!
> 
> Yes, I'm aware of this problem, and I don't know what to do about it.
> Once you download an available list that has epochs in it, old
> versions of dpkg will completely die.
> 
> The easiest way to proceed is:
> # manually download a copy of dpkg 1.4.0.7
> dpkg --clear-avail
> dpkg -i dpkg_1.4.0.7.deb
> dselect # proceed as normal

True, this works. But, stuff like this is driving more and more
machines here at BNL to RedHat. I'm not placing blame, just raising a
point. This week, I should have another machine at home built so I
can start QAing the install process of at least the base packages,
the ones you get from dselect without selecting any more. I'll be 
trying clean installs, and then upgrades.

Tim

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