Re: apt-get dselect upgrade problems

[John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>]

I did a  dselect update from within dselect but got the same missing
packages as before when I did apt-get dselect-upgrade.  I have not had
any problems doing it this way before, but in the last two days its
not working.

Looking on the debian site, I cannot find an up to date binary for
util-linux, this may be the problem.

Also, note the apt-cache dump is much smaller than the available file
in /var/lib/dpkg .

On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Joost Kooij wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:52:46AM -0400, John Covici wrote:
> > I just did apt-get update before doing the upgrade -- how could they
> > be out of date?
>
> If you do a "dselect-upgrade" with apt-get, it will use the dpkg available
> packages database.  Apt normally uses its own available packages database,
> and does not use the dpkg database.  The dpkg available database must also
> be kept up to date, but there is no "apt-get dselect-update" for that.
> I think that apt-get should do this on every regular "apt-get update",
> because it should keep the dpkg available packages list in sync with
> the user's expectations.
>
> You can still do this in dselect or manually, using
>   apt-cache dumpavail | dpkg --update-avail
>
> Until apt gets this right on regular updates, you should run update
> from dselect.
>
> It is generally also advisable to manage your package selections in
> dselect, so you know eg.  what you are upgrading in advance.  Then, when
> you run install in dselect, it will do the "apt-get dselect-upgrade"
> for you.  So if you stay in dselect the whole time, it is even less
> typing than with apt-get.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Joost
>
> > > > I am trying to do apt-get dselect-upgrade and I am getting some
> > > > missing files and indeed if I ftp to  the debian site the files are
> > > > not there -- but why do the package lists point to files which are not
> > > > there?
> > > >
> > > > I am running woody here and here is the relevant portion of the
> > > > output.
> > > >
> > > > 321 packages upgraded, 18 newly installed, 4 to remove and 13  not upgraded.
> > > > Need to get 8864kB/169MB of archives. After unpacking 9560kB will be used.
> > > > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main bsdutils 1:2.11g-4 [34.7kB]
> > > > Err ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main bsdutils 1:2.11g-4
> > > >   Unable to fetch file, server said '/debian/pool/main/u/util-linux/bsdutils_2.11g-4_i386.deb: No such file or directory.  '
> > > > Get:2 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main mount 2.11g-4 [97.1kB]
> > > > Err ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main mount 2.11g-4
> > > >   Unable to fetch file, server said '/debian/pool/main/u/util-linux/mount_2.11g-4_i386.deb: No such file or directory.  '
> > >
> > > [many more]
> > >
> > > > E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
> > > >
> > > > Any assistance would be appreciated.
> > >
> > > Your available packages database is out of date, it seems.
> > >
> > > Run "dselect update select install" and see if it helps.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > >
> > > Joost
> > >
> >
> > --
> >          John Covici
> >          covici@ccs.covici.com
> >
>

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         John Covici
         covici@ccs.covici.com