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

[mike thexxxhost com]

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 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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