Re: autoup.sh & considerations on bail-out scripts
On Sat, Feb 14, 1998 at 09:07:44AM +1059, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > If the script were to upgrade libc5 to 5.4.x, then upgrade dpkg to 1.4.x
> > for libc5, it could upgrade systems right back from buzz (debian 1.1).
>
> autoup can upgrade a system from rex to hamm. i think you were working on
> getting it to do buzz as well - did you have any luck with that?
I sent you an email about what other things had to be done during the process
to get it to work, but I guess you never got it.
> > buzz had dpkg 1.2.x, which doesn't have the --get-selections that
> > autoup wants to use. dpkg 1.4.0.8 (from bo) needs libc5 >= 5.4.0.0.
>
> autoup doesn't use --get-selections or --set-selections. it just removes
I thought it used get-selections to work out which dev packages are installed?
> btw, the first thing that autoup installs is the latest libc5 from
> hamm's oldlibs/ (it has to, in order to avoid conflicts with libc6)
I will look into it again asap.
Hamish
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