Bug#23658: marked as done (updated packages and gratuitous unpacks (was Re: test of dpkg-mountable))
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To: Bob Hilliard <hilliard@flinet.com>
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Subject: updated packages and gratuitous unpacks (was Re: test of dpkg-mountable)
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From: Andy Mortimer <andy.mortimer@poboxes.com>
Date: 17 Jun 1998 21:35:53 +0100
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Hi Bob,
Sorry for the delay in replying, hope it's still useful.
Bob Hilliard <hilliard@flinet.com> writes:
> I recently had some difficulties in a test upgrade, using
> dpkg-mountable. The underlying cause was a Packages file that was out
> of sync with the mirror, so that three packages, two of them important
> libraries, were one version higher than indicated in the package
> file. Therefore, they were not installed, causing numerous other
> packages to fail to configure.
Nice. Unfortunately, not something that dpkg-mountable is designed to cope
with, although perhaps it should. OTOH one could argue that if the mirror is
having problems they may be more fundamental than dpkg-mountable could
trivially take (think epochs, for instance), so it's best not to do anything.
> I manually installed the missing packages before starting a
> second Install pass, but the error messages continued to report that
> configurations failed because those packages weren't installed. I
> forgot to repeat Update before the second run. Would a second Update
> step have fixed that?
I'm not sure; it's not clear exactly what went wrong, at least to me. I
wouldn't have expected it to, though ... that's a dpkg function, and I seem to
be having more and more difficulty working out what dpkg is doing recently. :(
> When a second Install pass is made, it appears that all packages
> are unpacked again. I think it would be helpful if you called dpkg -i
> with the -E option. Of course that may break something I'm not aware of.
Not as far as I know; the problem is that dpkg-mountable doesn't actually do
dpkg -i, it does dpkg --unpack followed by dpkg --configure. I keep wondering
whether to change this -- I did it originally cos I could! -- but I hadn't
come up with a reason; this may be one. (I'm assuming that -E doesn't work
with --unpack; if it does, you've just solved my problem, and you're even more
of a star!)
Thanks for your input. I've copied this to the bug system so it doesn't get
lost!
Andy
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Subject: dpkg-mountable removed from Debian unstable
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dpkg-mountable has been removed from Debian unstable and won't be
released with the next official release of Debian, codenamed "woody".
The original maintainer writes:
| * I can no longer test new versions of this package, as I'm using
| apt-zip rather than my not-free dialup access. I wrote it when I
| was accessing the University's NFS archive mirror!
|
| * It's slightly buggy, and badly out-of-date policy-wise.
|
| * Apt now provides (AFAIK) all the features provided by
| dpkg-mountable, and some (such as package ordering) that it never
| got around to getting.
Please switch to apt.
If you have questions about this, please contact me.
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