Bug#193278: libc6: When restarting, if one fails, rest isn't done

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>]

At Fri, 16 May 2003 15:14:39 +0200,
Paul Slootman wrote:
> 
> On Thu 15 May 2003, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> > 
> > Did you upgrade from woody to sarge or sid?
> 
> Eh, from testing to testing...
> The last time I did a dist-upgrade had been some time ago.

It's ok, this script works once when upgrading from glibc <= 2.2.94 to
2.3.1 or higher.  I guess your "testing" was 2.2.94 or lower.

> > Which awk version do you use?
> 
> mawk 1.3.3-9
> 
> > It seems original-awk does not work well.  We should change to "mawk"?
> 
> No :-)
> 
> > > dpkg gives an extra empty line if a not-installed package name is given,
> > > which is probably what is confusing the awk script.
> > 
> > Could you provide us your "dpkg -s apache apache2-common proftpd"?
> 
> Between the lines:
> --------
> Package: apache

I don't understand why you thought "dpkg gives an extra empty line if
a not-installed package name is given".  Look at libc6.postinst.  You
see some packages which are not installed on your machine, don't you?

Regards,
-- gotom