Bug#310801: Failed: mips(el) (cobalt): no aptitude package in woody for mips(el)
retitle 310801 [Release notes] no working aptitude on woody hppa/mips/mipsel
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On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 04:35:30PM +1200, Ewen McNeill wrote:
> 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).
Woody g++ is not able to build aptitude on hppa, mips and mipsel. Since
woody packages need to build with woody g++, there is no possibility to
fix that bug in woody, unfortunately.
> 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.
We are aware of this bug and are considering what alternatives to
propose. So far, the best alternative we have is to ask mips/el users to do:
apt-get update
apt-get install aptitude
aptitude -f dist-upgrade
Would that work for you ?
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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