Problem upgrading to test2

[Carl Youngblood]

Is this the wrong mailing list to post a question like this?  If so, 
where would be a good place to do it?

Thanks,
Carl Youngblood

Carl Youngblood wrote:

> Hello, I've been following the instructions in an article on 
> fedoranews.org that explains how to update one's system from Fedora 
> core 1 to core 2 test 1, only I'm trying to do it for test 2 instead 
> of test1 (the instructions are basically the same--I just need to 
> download the apt rpm from a different location).
>
> The article is here:
>
> http://fedoranews.org/ghenry/apt-fc2/
>
> I can get as far as being able to run apt-get update with no apparent 
> problems.  However, when I try to run apt-get dist-upgrade, I get a 
> long list of proposed changes and then an error message like this:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> kernel#2.6.5-1.322: PreDepends: fileutils
>                     PreDepends: module-init-tools
>                     PreDepends: initscripts (>= 5.83) but it is not 
> going to be installed
>                     PreDepends: mkinitrd (>= 3.5.5) but it is not 
> going to be installed
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> E: Internal Error, InstallPackages was called with broken packages!
>
> Apparently these packages are part of the coreutils package, which 
> can't be removed without hosing the system.  Does anyone know a way 
> that I can get around this?  Right now my apt is in an unusable state 
> because it's core 2 test 2's apt but it's running on core 1.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Carl Youngblood


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