Missing fsck
While testing the upgrading of rex to hamm I have discovered
several problems or possible bugs. I will post each of these as
separate messages, and ask if anyone else has encountered them, and if
they should be reported as bugs.
The rex system had e2fsprogs v1.06-3 installed, and version
1.10-9 was selected for installation. e2fslibsg was also selected for
installation. e2fslibsg conflicts with e2fsprogs (<= 1.10-7), so
dselect removed e2fsprogs v1.06-3. In the process, the selection of
1.10-9 was lost, so that the message "Skipping deselected package
e2fsprogs." was issued when it reached that program.
The installation finished without an fsck, which would prevent
normal booting. I had encountered this problem in an earlier test, and
was not sure if I had made the correct choices in the dselect (S)elect
phase, so I re-ran the installation, being very careful about my
choices.
An experienced user can repair this problem, but it would be
devastating to a new user.
The packages involved seem to declare their dependencies
correctly, so the problem appears to be in dpkg/dselect. Since
dependencies are routinely handled correctly by these programs, I
don't understand what could cause this isolated problem.
Comments?
Bob
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