Re: Ongoing saga of upgrading my old Woody
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Jamin W.Collins wrote:
> Nope, no one will help you. All the people that have provided advice so
> far appear to have not been seen as helping. =)
>
> Now, I'm no expert at either apt or dpkg, but what do the following
> commands return on that box?
>
> ls -l /var/lib/apt
> ls -l /var/lib/apt/lists
> ls -l /var/lib/dpkg
Oops -- My frustration is showing rather badly. I apologize for that! Yes
some did try to help, but my inability and ignorance kept me from getting
anywhere. I'm the one responsible. One thing works and something else
breaks.
When the last request went essentially unanswered I wondered if I would
get a response. In spite of the fact that I have always found Debian User
to be the friendlyiest place anywhere.
Thank you for answering.
Now to answer your query:
#ls -l /var/lib/apt
total 3
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 3072 Sep 12 13:45 lists
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Oct 24 1999 lock
#ls -l /var/lib/apt/lists
total 7206
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 163405 Jul 19 15:33 http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_contrib_binary-i386_Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 96 Jul 19 15:03 http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_contrib_binary-i386_Release
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6535222 Jul 19 15:33 http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 93 Jul 19 15:03 http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Release
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 219924 Jul 19 15:33 http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_non-free_binary-i386_Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 97 Jul 19 15:03 http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_non-free_binary-i386_Release
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Sep 12 14:59 lock
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1810 Jul 19 17:27 non-US.debian.org_debian-non-US_dists_stable_non-US_contrib_binary-i386_Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 103 Jul 19 17:23 non-US.debian.org_debian-non-US_dists_stable_non-US_contrib_binary-i386_Release
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 180106 Jul 18 04:21 non-US.debian.org_debian-non-US_dists_stable_non-US_main_binary-i386_Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 100 Jul 19 17:23 non-US.debian.org_debian-non-US_dists_stable_non-US_main_binary-i386_Release
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6551 Jul 19 17:27 non-US.debian.org_debian-non-US_dists_stable_non-US_non-free_binary-i386_Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 104 Jul 19 17:23 non-US.debian.org_debian-non-US_dists_stable_non-US_non-free_binary-i386_Release
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Sep 12 13:45 partial
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 979 Jul 12 21:39 security.debian.org_debian-security_dists_stable_updates_contrib_binary-i386_Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 113 Sep 12 10:34 security.debian.org_debian-security_dists_stable_updates_contrib_binary-i386_Release
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 226727 Sep 12 10:34 security.debian.org_debian-security_dists_stable_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 110 Sep 12 10:34 security.debian.org_debian-security_dists_stable_updates_main_binary-i386_Release
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 19 09:13 security.debian.org_debian-security_dists_stable_updates_non-free_binary-i386_Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 114 Sep 12 10:34 security.debian.org_debian-security_dists_stable_updates_non-free_binary-i386_Release
#ls -l /var/lib/dpkg
total 14598
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Nov 27 2001 alternatives
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6023685 Sep 12 13:43 available
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6022145 Sep 12 13:42 available-old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8 Sep 12 15:00 cmethopt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 563 Oct 12 2001 diversions
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 506 Oct 12 2001 diversions-old
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 90112 Sep 12 13:42 info
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Sep 12 15:17 lock
-rw-rw---- 1 root root 0 Sep 12 14:59 methlock
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 1024 Jun 4 1999 methods
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 4 1999 predep-package
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56 Nov 27 2001 statoverride
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28 Sep 7 2001 statoverride-old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1369161 Sep 12 13:42 status
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1366219 Sep 12 13:42 status-old
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Sep 12 13:43 updates
Any advice based on this?
David Teague
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