On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 00:55 -0300, Tom Cerul wrote: > Yeah, that's one of the disadvantages of writing stable software. > It'll just run for years without updates. :) Yup, I'm just going > through etch to get to lenny. > > I'm pretty sure it's just the one package. Here's the command and > results. I ran it twice so the other packages wouldn't clutter up the > results. OK, I've now downloaded the binary package for myself, and sure enough there is a preinst script, though I can't see how it gets there. (I only recently joined the kernel team so I'm not that familiar with how older versions of the kernel packages were built.) > ********* > LinBox:/home/tom# aptitude install linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > Reading extended state information > Initializing package states... Done > Writing extended state information... Done > Reading task descriptions... Done > Building tag database... Done > The following NEW packages will be installed: > linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 > 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B/16.3MB of archives. After unpacking 48.0MB will be used. > Writing extended state information... Done > Preconfiguring packages ... > (Reading database ... 100906 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 (from > .../linux-image-2.6.18-6-686_2.6.18.dfsg.1-24_i386.deb) ... > Ok, Aborting [...] It looks like you have set debconf to be non-interactive, and the kernel preinst script is trying to ask you a question that you really do need to answer. Run 'dpkg-reconfigure debconf' to fix that. Also check whether the environment variable DEBIAN_FRONTEND is set, as that will override the system default. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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