On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 08:05:28AM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> FYI, don't know what to do about this.
mips/mipsel also have the kernel upgrade issue, so... Perhaps the following
recipe will work?
- edit sources.list to point to sarge
- disable pinning
- apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.27-foo
- reboot
- apt-get install doc-base
- apt-get install aptitude dpkg perl
[hmm, this last doesn't seem to be part of the recommended path on the
website currently?]
- aptitude -f --with-recommends dist-upgrade
--
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
> ----- Forwarded message from Ewen McNeill <ewen@naos.co.nz> -----
>
> From: Ewen McNeill <ewen@naos.co.nz>
> Reply-To: Ewen McNeill <ewen@naos.co.nz>, 310801@bugs.debian.org
> Subject: Bug#310801: Failed: mips(el) (cobalt): no aptitude package in woody for mips(el)
> Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 16:35:30 +1200
> To: submit@bugs.debian.org
> Resent-To: debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org
>
> Package: upgrade-reports
>
> [NOTE: This duplicates some information in report #310005; I'm
> still filing as a separate bug because I think the specific issue
> (aptitude missing in woody for mips(el)) is sigificant enough to warrant
> separate attention. Feel free to close this bug if/when issue raised
> in this/#310005 are addressed somehow -- even if it's just duplicating the
> recommended approach from #310005 into the mips(el) Sarge release notes.]
>
>
> Archive date: Wed May 25 19:00:01 UTC 2005
> Upgrade date: 2005/05/26 16:00:00 +1200
> uname -a: Linux cobalt-linux 2.4.26 #2 Tue Apr 27 13:29:20 NZST 2004 mips unknown
> Method: Attempted to upgrade with aptitude following instructions here
> http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/mipsel/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html
>
>
> Unfortunately I didn't get very far with my attempt to upgrade my
> Cobalt box (running Debian Linux, Woody, installed following Paul
> Martin's instructions from a few years ago).
>
> One of the first instructions (after "make a backup") is:
>
> -=- cut here -=-
> First the aptitude package needs to be installed. This is done with:
>
> apt-get install aptitude
>
> Provided that you have a working APT configuration this will install the woody version of aptitude.
> -=- cut here -=-
>
> Unfortunately this isn't possible on a mips(el) architecture.
>
> -=- cut here -=-
> ewen@cobalt-linux:~$ sudo apt-get install aptitude
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> E: Couldn't find package aptitude
> ewen@cobalt-linux:~$
> -=- cut here -=-
>
> There is no aptitude package for mips prior to the 0.2.15.9-2 (from Sarge).
> Eg, from ftp.debian.org:
>
> -=- cut here -=-
> ftp> cd debian/pool/main
> 250 Directory successfully changed.
> ftp> cd a/aptitude
> 250 Directory successfully changed.
> ftp> ls *mips*
> 200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV.
> 150 Here comes the directory listing.
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 1176 1176 1932216 Apr 09 18:47 aptitude_0.2.15.9-2_mips.deb
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 1176 1176 1922778 Apr 07 18:32 aptitude_0.2.15.9-2_mipsel.deb
> 226 Directory send OK.
> -=- cut here -=-
>
> Version in Woody on, eg, i386 is
>
> -=- cut here -=-
> ewen@basilica:~ $ apt-cache show aptitude | grep Version
> Version: 0.2.11.1-4
> -=- cut here -=-
>
> At a guess that is due to bug #84935 ("g++ fails to compile aptitude on
> the mips architecture"), which is marked as Normal/Resolved, as of
> a month ago.
>
> Apparently not resolved in time to get a version into Woody, even with
> the most recent Debian Woody minor-release (which IIRC did include an
> aptitude update in order to make Woody->Sarge updates easier; but not
> for mips(el) it seems).
>
> I see there is one last Debian Woody mini-release planned:
>
> http://people.debian.org/~joey/3.0r6/
>
> but it doesn't include aptitude at this stage.
>
> It seems to me that either:
> (a) aptitude should be built for Woody on all Sarge architectures, and
> included in 3.0r6; or
>
> (b) on those architectures where aptitude isn't available (ie, mips(el))
> the release notes should provide alternative instructions on
> upgrading (eg, using apt-get cautiously, or perhaps doing enough
> of the upgrade to pull in aptitude from Sarge then using aptitude).
>
> I'm sure that I can figure out some way to upgrade this system to Sarge
> even if neither of those are done (I've backported enough packages myself
> for one thing; and done Debian upgrades since Bo without using aptitude),
> but in the interests of accurate documention it seems something worth
> addressing.
>
> Ewen
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