Re: stable-->testing report
On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 08:47:22PM -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote:
> The first subsequent iteration of `apt-get dist-upgrade' produced
> this problem right at the start of the process:
>
> %% apt-get dist-upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Calculating Upgrade... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> catdvi dotfile dotfile-bash dotfile-elm dotfile-emacs dotfile-fvwm1
> dotfile-fvwm2 dotfile-rtin dotfile-tcsh freetype2-dev libncurses4-dev
> librpm1 libwmf0-dev minfo-smotif netscape4 pnmtopng tetex-lib tetex-nonfree
> xcontrib xlib6g-dev xpm4g xpm4g-dev
Some of those are packages not in testing yet:
* catdvi - actually, that wasn't in stable either
Some are packages removed/renamed since stable:
* freetype2-dev -> libttf-dev
* librpm1 -> librpm0
* libwmf0-dev -> libwmf-dev
* netscape4 -> netscape-*-477
* pnmtopng -> netpbm
* tetex-lib -> libkpathsea3
* tetex-nonfree
* xcontrib -> xbase-clients
* xlib6g-dev -> xlibs-dev
* xpm4g -> xlibs
* xpm4g-dev -> xlibs-dev
Some are not in the main archive and presumably local or from older
stable distributions:
* dotfile-emacs
* minfo-smotif
libncurses4-dev is still in testing, but apt has replaced it with
libncurses5-dev. Not sure why dotfile-* is being removed.
> perl: error while loading shared libraries: libdb.so.3: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
That's release-critical (#107640 et al) and will be fixed.
> That installed fine. And when that was done, the upgrade proceeded in
> a familiar and reassuring way until:
>
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/exim_3.31-1_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Later output showed the preinst failing because /etc/exim doesn't exist
yet, which has been fixed in unstable. Creating the /etc/exim directory
by hand will help in the meantime, as you eventually did.
> At that point, I tried:
>
> %% dpkg --configure -a
>
> Which worked fine until:
>
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> [xfig, ted, debhelper, wmmail, wmaker, alien]
We'd need to see the corresponding error messages further up the output.
> Unpacking replacement dnsutils ...
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/exim_3.31-1_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> %% dpkg --configure -a
>
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of dnsutils:
> dnsutils depends on host; however:
> Package host is not installed.
> dpkg: error processing dnsutils (--configure):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Probably just because the installation run was interrupted.
> That completed uneventfully (except that I was asked about
> configuration details that I had already been asked about, with
> respect to fetchmail and with respect to the X server).
Those could be normal bugs against the packages in question. fetchmail
is substantially newer in unstable than in testing, and X has gone from
4.0.3-4 to 4.1.0-2, which might be relevant.
Thanks,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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