How to fix a failed apt-clone dist-upgrade on Nexenta unstable

The current Nexenta NCP 2.0 hardy-unstable repository has some broken bits that prevent a clean apt-clone dist-upgrade from working. A common question on the IRC channel is how to work around this, and I’ve answered it enough times that I thought it best to write up some basic instructions. Here’s an example of what happens: [...]

posted in nexenta, opensolaris by pds