Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

[Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net>]

Joey Hess wrote:
> Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote:
>
> > I have mistakenly trusted the Debian community and upgraded to Sarge
> > and it is a DISASTER.
> >
> > HOW COULD YOU HAVE DONE THIS TO US ! ! !
> >
> > (Reading database ... 70119 files and directories currently installed.)
> > Removing xserver-rage128 ...
> > sed: can't read /etc/X11/Xserver: No such file or directory
> > dpkg: error processing xserver-rage128 (--remove):
>
>
> How could we have not ever shipped a package named "xserver-rage128" but
> yet somehow enticed you to install some broken third-party package by that
> name onto your system, thus hosing your sarge upgrade? I really can't
> say.

No chance this is a 3.3.6 module?

If this is a third party, how do you get through this?

My experience with aptitude and merillat's dvd libs is that things just 
don't upgrade for a spell and then they do.  But everything has to be 
linked in the sources.list.  I guess pulling in your own without a 
sources.list reference requires a bit more skill.

Would aptitude show you these third party packages?