Re: Trying to upgrade a frozen to frozen
Oscar Levi writes:
> On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 08:19:20AM +0100, Loic Prylli wrote:
> >
> > There happens to be an incompatibility between the previous libc, still
> > used on the installation disks (until I make a new set), and the new
> > executables generated by our current egcs, this is related to the issue
> > discussed under the egcs and glibc thread.
> >
> > Actually it looks like it made gunzip unsuable on your machine.
> >
> > Hopefully a solution should come soon,
>
> This problem just slayed my alpha.
A new gzip has been installed in the archive, so this problem should
not occur anymore. For those who have been victim of it in the
meantime: here is a possible solution:
As soon as you have upgraded to the latest libc in the archive, you
will be safe of any trouble. The problem is that you cannot upgrade
without gzip, so you need to install manually a new gzip (you could do
this for libc, but upgrading libc manually is a more dangerous
experience).
Take a "neutral" gzip (means should run with
every libc) on http://www.ens-lyon.fr/~lprylli/axp/
Install manually (link to it gunzip, zcat, uncompress).
Then dpkg should work, upgrade libc _first_.
After libc is upgraded, nothing wrong can happen to your system
anymore, feel free to upgrade to any package in the archive.
You can also boot from the rescue disk and copy the gzip there into
your normal root filesystem.
Loic
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