Autoup Upgrade (Was: Re: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #536)
Hi,
During the upgrade, autoup.sh must remove several critical
packages in order to upgrade them i.e. in bo, perl is one package; in
hamm perl is provided by perl-base and perl. The hamm version of perl
depends on perl-base, but perl-base conflicts with the bo version of
perl. Therefore it is necessary to remove the bo version of perl.
Since many packages depend upon perl, dpkg must deconfigure these
packages, then remove perl. It then installs perl-base and perl in
sequence and configures the packages that were unconfigured.
During that process, a number of alarming warning messages are
generated.
If autoup.sh completes normally (displays a message saying you
now have a libc6 system, and discusses wtmp and utmp), all of these
warning messages may be ignored.
When you enter dselect after autoup finishes, the best course of
action is to use the access, update and install modules - don't even
enter the select module. In that case all packages on your system
that have an upgraded version (almost all of them) are automatically
upgraded without any further action on your part. You are then free
to use the select function to add any package you might desire. Most
development libraries are removed by autoup.sh, and are not
automatically replaced. Autoup.sh creates a file
"removed-<today's_date>" in the current directory recording the
packages that were removed. This provides a guide to the packages
that should be reinstalled with dselect or manually with dpkg -i.
Bob
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Gregory Guthrie <guthrie@mum.edu> writes:
> I just did an upgrade bo --> hamm using autoup.sh.
>
> Amazing. But, there are a number of steps which left me cold; and flipping
> a coinn for the right action.
>
> 1) during the autoup it had seeral "conflicts", adn it was not clear to me
> if I needed to do anything about them. E.g. I think it tried to remove
> something that depended on Perl, but I had perl installed, or something...
> "dependency problems .. libwww-perl depends on Perl, but perl is not
> installed.
> ... libnet
>
> Anyway, there was no clear indication if all was OK, if it was a comment,
> or if some remedial action was needed (later).,
>
> 2) After update, it says "now use dselect to upgrade the rest of your
> system", then reboot.
>
> ?? How do I know what to upgrade? I would like to say; "whatever needs an
> upgrade, if I have it installed, do it."
> Instead, I had to go through dselect, look at hundreds of packages, try to
> remember which I had selected, and decide if they need update. Am I missing
> something here?
>
> Greg Guthrie
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