[Hoary] dist-upgrade wants to remove and/or downgrade 36 pkgs.

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 07:56:56PM -0700, Myles Green wrote:

> On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 16:41:46 -0800
> Matt Zimmerman <mdz at canonical.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 09:47:36AM -0700, Myles Green wrote:
> > 
> > > Has anybody else run into this or have I borked my Ubuntu?
> > 
> > Looks like you've set some very strange things in /etc/apt/preferences
> > and/or /etc/apt/apt.conf.
> 
> I wish that were the answer, but I've not touched either file, in fact
> /etc/apt/apt.conf doesn't exist, I do have an apt-build.conf and an 
> apt-file.conf though... 
> 
> Here are the contents of/etc/apt/preferences:

Delete /etc/apt/preferences, and remove any non-Hoary sources from your
sources.list, and you'll be in good shape. If you have more questions,
please follow up to ubuntu-users.

-- 
 - mdz