Re: Issues with the experimental dpkg
Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com> writes:
> On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 20:19 +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote:
>
>
>> I experienced some problems with dpkg from experimental:
>>
>> - It seems to break type-handling. The following command
>> returns an empty string instead of an arch list:
>>
>> $ type-handling any linux-gnu
>>
> This is likely a bug in type-handling, or at least a lack of support for
> the changes in dpkg 1.13; at a guess, it either dislikes the
> archtable->ostable/cputable split or the fact that dpkg-architecture
> returns "linux-gnu" instead of "linux" for DEB_*_GNU_SYSTEM.
OK, thanks.
>> - I had problems downgrading dpkg to the unstable version because
>> of the md5sum* diversions. I noticed that in the
>> /var/lib/dpkg/diversions file, "coreutils" had been replaced
>> by the ':' character. I suspect it did happen during the
>> attempt to downgrade.
>>
> Hmm, I hadn't yet put any thought into removing the diversion on
> uninstall or downgrade ... so I'm not surprised it broke,
So diversions do not work properly across downgraded, this is
good to know.
Cheers,
--
Jérôme Marant
http://marant.org
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