Conflicts with new packages? (NetworkManager and wireless-tools)

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Tue Jan 18 19:36:00 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 12:57 -0600, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> David Hoffman wrote:
> > So the NEW NetworkManager requires a file that is only provided by the
> > OLD wireless-tools. And that means that both files cannot be upgraded
> > to the most recent released versions.
> 
> Hm, haven't noticed that one, but that is probably because I got rid of 
> NetworkManager some time ago.
> 
> Are you actually using functionality provided by NetworkManager?  If 
> not, remove it and update wireless-tools (if you have wireless in the 
> box, if not get rid of that one too).  If you are actually using 
> NetworkManager features, you'll have to wait until this dependency 
> problem is resolved (I wouldn't be surprised to see update for 
> NetworkManager as soon as today or tommorow, but you never know, it 
> might take longer).  There's no workaround.  Forcing the update of 
> wireless-tools would likely cause NetworkManager to stop functioning.

NetworkManager isn't the only conflicting package, I believe kdenetwork
clashes too.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>




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