Re: dist-upgrade from stable to testing

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 12:20:57AM -0600, Phil Reardon wrote:
> On Monday 13 August 2001 11:36 pm, John Galt wrote:
> > mkdir /etc/exim then rerun apt-get dist-upgrade...  You won't have to
> > re-download the 166M, BTW.
> >
> > On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Phil Reardon wrote:
> > >After apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade to testing, I got a successful
> > >download of 166 MB. But during the install/config, I saw this message:
> > >
> > >mv: cannot create regjular file '/etc/exim/exim.conf' ;  No such file or
> > >directory.
> > > .(stuff removed)
> 
> Thanks, John:
> 
> I tried creating the exim directory and even did a touch exim.conf there. 
> Then I did apt-get dist-upgrade again and it complained of unmet dependencies 
> and recommended apt-get -f install.  I did that too, and then things 
> proceeded okay.  I think I have Woody now!

This is also fixed in exim 3.32-1 in unstable, by the way.

exim (3.32-1) unstable; urgency=low

  [...]
  * debian/preinst: create /etc/exim before moving exim.conf (Closes:
    #106659, #107657)
  [...]

 -- Mark Baker <mark@mnb.org.uk>  Wed,  8 Aug 2001 23:34:04 +0100

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]