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Re: Triggers Pending



On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 09:40:19AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2008-04-27 01:34 +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 03:06:04PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote:
> >> With today's 1.14.18 dpkg update in Testing, my initramfs-tools
> >> status has changed from "ii" to "it", meaning that I want the
> >> package installed and triggers are pending.  FWIW, the system
> >> attained this state without dpkg ever being invoked with an
> >> explicit trigger-related command-line option.  initramfs-tools
> >> was updated about six days before the latest dpkg and the "ii"
> >> only changed to "it" when dpkg was updated.
> >
> > I'm seeing the same thing.
> 
> This is because initramfs-tools already uses triggers, see #447611¹.
> I'm not convinced that it is a very good idea to do this in Lenny
> packages, since the Etch versions of apt and aptitude lack support for
> the new trigger states.   While dpkg 1.14.18 conflicts with these
> versions, a dist-upgrade from Etch to Lenny will still be done by the
> old versions.
 
I remember from previous release notes that one step before upgrading 
the entire system was to upgrade aptitude. Probably similar shall be 
done now.

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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