Re: Bug#489132: lenny release notes, upgrade dpkg first
On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 09:29:09PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Jul 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > On Thu, 03 Jul 2008, Bryan Donlan wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 6:25 AM, Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> wrote:
> > > > Package: release-notes
> > > > Severity: important
> > > >
> > > > To work-around a problem that can happen in the perl 5.10 upgrade (see
> > > > #479711), the perl scripts contained in dpkg (update-alternatives,
> > > > dpkg-divert) have been modified... but for the work-around to be used, the
> > > > new dpkg must obviously be installed first, before the dist-upgrade.
> > > >
> > > > Given that the new dpkg also supports triggers, we should probably also
> > > > recommend to upgrade apt/aptitude at the same time otherwise those tools
> > > > might be confused by the new package status...
> > >
> > > Would it be better to just set pre-depends on the appropriate version
> > > of dpkg in perl? That ought to ensure they are upgraded in the correct
> > > order, even for people who don't read the release notes :)
> >
> > Hum, this might be possible indeed. We don't like frequent use of
> > Pre-Depends but this one might be justifiable. Ccing -devel for comments
> > and perl@packages.debian.org as they'd have to do it.
>
> For the perl work-around it's ok (as unpacked scripts will be immediately
> used), but if we don't ask the user to upgrade apt/aptitude separately,
> then the old versions will be used (apt doesn't restart itself!) and it
> might cause troubles.
>
> So even with this pre-depends, I'd still recommend a separate upgrade
> prior to the real dist-upgrade.
This sounds similar to the woody->sarge upgrade, where we were also
recommended to upgrade perl and aptitude first, and only then do the
main dist-upgrade. That worked then, except that my machine ran out of
disk space partway through the upgrade!
-- hendrik
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