Re: Upgrading to woody -> md5sum gave malformatted output
>>>>> "Adam" == Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> writes:
Adam> On 28 Jul 2002, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
Turbo> I'm trying to upgrade my firewall, but libc6 refuses. I first
Turbo> thought that it was a problem with the package, so I downloaded
Turbo> it manually from the FTP site, and tried to upgrade/install
Turbo> just libc6.
Adam> Edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6.postinst, add 'set -x' near
Adam> the top. dpkg --configure libc6
Didn't help. I tried putting it after 'set -e', and I've tried to
REPLACE 'set -e' with 'set -x'... Nothing of it helped.
Adam> md5sum in dpkg was made to be compatible with md5sum from
Adam> textutils. This means that when md5sum is reading from
Adam> stdin, it outputs ' -' as the filename.
I could see no references to 'md5sum' in the postinst script, but
after extracting libncurses5 and dpkg it worked:
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meduza:/var/cache/apt/archives# dpkg -x libncurses5_5.2.20020112a-7_i386.deb /
meduza:/var/cache/apt/archives# dpkg -x dpkg_1.9.21_i386.deb /
----- s n i p -----
Then all I had to do was:
----- s n i p -----
meduza:/var/cache/apt/archives# dpkg --configure libc6
meduza:/var/cache/apt/archives# dpkg --configure libncurses5
meduza:/var/cache/apt/archives# apt-get dist-upgrade
----- s n i p -----
Now it seems to continue...
Adam> My guess is that the libc6.postinst is assuming a newer
Adam> md5sum, but because dpkg has not yet been updated, it uses
Adam> the old version.
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