Re: dselect install does not work
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 12:13:17AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> To test the upgrade process, I've done basically the following:
>
> * Installed a potato system by using dselect (the "advanced method"),
> accepting the defaults (packages with priority >= standard).
>
> * apt-get install debconf (replacing debconf-tiny).
>
> * Make /etc/apt/sources.list point to woody.
>
> * "dselect update".
>
> * "dselect select" and resolve a few dependencies and conflicts in the
> logical way.
>
> * "dselect install". This is the fun part:
>
> [...]
> 93% [Scanning packages]Template parse error near "" at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 102, <TEMPLATES> chunk 2.
> E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error code (29)
> E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt
> Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the
> packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors
> or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors
> above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again
> Press enter to continue.
>
>
> installation script returned error exit status 100.
> Press <enter> to continue.
>
>
> I'm sure there are good workarounds for this (for example, using
> "apt-get dist-upgrade" instead) but I'm very worried about the fact
> that this may happen much more often than it should.
>
> Does somebody know what is the exact nature of this bug?
>
Yep, I had to do
apt-get install debconf
after the dselect update to solve the problem
> Perhaps this is some kind of design flaw in dselect/apt/debconf/whatever
> that we can't fix retroactively?
I don't know if using apt-get dist-upgrade would help, 'couse remember you ar upgrading a system
>
> Have we reached the point where we will be telling our users not to
> use dselect to do upgrades in the release-notes for woody?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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