Re: errors during recent dist-upgrades
(Very fast!)
On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 09:46:29PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
> > Recent "apt-get dist-upgrade" runs here have had quite a few configuration
> > errors due to packages being configured before their dependencies
> > have been configured. This looks like a plain apt-get or dpkg bug
> > -- can anyone confirm?
>
> Packages being configured before their dependents is definately a dpkg
> bug, it is responsible for ordering that [though APT does it too]
>
> Are you sure you are seeing out of order configuration? That would be
> really bad.. Maybe capture some script output.
Too late, it's all done now. I definately saw a lot of packages
fail to configure because xpm4g was not yet configured; similar with
gcc and binutils, IIRC. dpkg is 1.4.1.19.
Hamish
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