Re: Testing upgrade: Potentially harmful(?) problem

[Sebastian Canagaratna <s-canagaratna@onu.edu>]

Hi (Jim and D):

Some further notes. The dist-upgrade seems to get stuck trying
to install libc6-dev2.2.3-5 ( it seems to think that
this depends on libc62.2.1 ) but this is not available in testing:

trying to overwrite /usr/bin/rpcgen which is also in package netbase
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal(broken-pipe)

Trying  dpkg -i libc6-dev2.2.3-5 also gives the same error.

So even if I try apt-get install debconf perl5.004 etc, it gets stuck
at the libc6dev.

(My other machine, which incidentally is unstable not testing as I
stated earlier had trouble with debconf but I was able to manually
install debconf and seems to be chugging away as I write, installing
the packages)

I can of course try to go to unstable, but I would rather not right
now. What other routes are available

Thanks

Sebastian.

On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 07:11:45PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 06:49:43PM -0400, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote:
> | Hi:
> | 
> |  I am trying to upgrade testing on my second machine (apt-get
> |  update; apt-get dist-upgrade) but it aborts. So I first tried to
> |  install debconf ( apt-get install debconf ) and I get:
> | 
> |  Extra Packages to be installed:
> |     libhtml-parser-perl  libhtml-target-perl  libmime-base64-perl
> |     libperl5.6  perl  perl-5.004  perl-5.004-suid  perl5.6
> |     perl-base perl-modules.
> | 
> |  Removed: perl-5.004-base
> |           perl-5.005
> | 	  perl-5.005-base
> | 
> | New: libhtml-tagset-perl
> |      libperl5.6
> |      perl
> |      perl-modules
> |      perl-suid
> | 
> | Essential package to be removed: perl-5.004-base. You are about to do
> | something potentially harmful. Don't do this unless you know what you
> | are doing.
> | 
> | At this stage I aborted.  Anybody have any ideas whether its Ok
> | to say yes?
> 
> The perl version changed.  However, perl is a critical component of
> the Debian core (dpkg or apt or debconf or something like that).  If
> you do a dist-upgrade then everything will get upgraded together and
> there won't be a problem because you replace one perl with another,
> and all the packages that depend on it are replaced with packages that
> depend on the new perl instead.
> 
> I did a dist-upgrade a few weeks ago without any trouble.  Maybe if
> you try again, as opposed to upgrading stuff one-at-a-time it will
> work better?  Why did it abort in the first place?  Did dpkg just die?
> If so, run it again (it happened to me a couple times).
> 
> At the moment I have :
> 
> $ dpkg -l perl\*base
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
> |uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name           Version        Description
> +++-==============-==============-============================================
> pn  perl-5.004-bas <none>         (no description available)
> ii  perl-5.005-bas 6.2            Transitional package.
> un  perl-5.6-base  <none>         (no description available)
> ii  perl-base      5.6.1-5        The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister.
> un  perl5-base     <none>         (no description available)
> 
> 
> -D
> 
> 
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Sebastian Canagaratna
Department of Chemistry
Ohio Northern University
s-canagaratna@onu.edu