Bug#21170: marked as done (dpkg malfunction-unable to upgrade Debian)
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From: Costantino Sertorio <c_sertorio@yahoo.com>
Subject: dpkg malfunction-unable to upgrade Debian
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The error appears as I'm trying to upgrade my old 1.2 version of
Debian Linux to a new one.
The problem is, dselect gives me an error and stops during "update
packages".
The result is that I can not upgrade in any way my Debian
installation, because I am not able to run dpkg.
Apparently, it doesn't like version numbers in "Packages" which
contain a colon. It stops at cdda2wav, because the version number
contains ":".
My old version of dpkg is 1.2.11 (i386 elf), I'm trying to install
Debian 1.3.1.
Kernel version: 2.0.18 #1 Mon Sep 9 01:07:33 PDT 1996 i586
libc version: libc.so.5.2.18
I report here what dselects prints out:
- ------------------------------------
.
.
.
Using `/cdrom/stable/binary-i386' as main binary dir.
Using `/cdrom/stable/binary-i386/Packages.gz' for main.
Using `/cdrom/contrib/binary-i386' as contrib binary dir.
Using `/cdrom/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.gz' for contrib.
`/cdrom/non-free/binary-i386' does not exist.
Which directory contains the *.deb packages from the non-free
distribution
area (this directory is named `non-free/binary' on the distribution
site) ?
Say `none' if this area is not available.
Enter _non-free_ binary dir. []
? none
`/cdrom/local/binary-i386' does not exist.
Which directory contains the *.deb packages from the local
distribution
area (this directory is named `local/binary' on the distribution site)
?
Say `none' if this area is not available.
Enter _local_ binary dir. []
? none
Hit RETURN to continue.
Uncompressing /cdrom/stable/binary-i386/Packages.gz ... done.
Replacing available packages info, using packages-main.
Information about 980 package(s) was updated.
Uncompressing /cdrom/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.gz ... done.
Updating available packages info, using packages-ctb.
Information about 32 package(s) was updated.
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 13596
package
`cdda2wav':
empty value for version
update available list script returned error exit status 1.
Press RETURN to continue.
-----Then I choose SELECT from the dselect menu and obtain:
dselect: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line
13596 package
`cdda2wav':
empty value for version
#
-----And I'm dropped out.
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Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 00:22:24 -0700
From: Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>
To: 21170-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: epochs? oh dear
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It's well documented that epochs are a dpkg 1.4.x thing and that people have
to get that.
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Robert Woodcock - rcw@debian.org
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