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Re: apt-get upgrade question



On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 12:10:56PM +0000, Richard Kimber wrote:
> In the course of a recent Debian testing apt-get upgrade, without using
> the -u option, a number of packages were upgraded. I discovered that one
> of these turned out to be kernel-source-2.4.19.  Since I only have one
> kernel-source-2.4.19 directory on my machine, I assume that it just
> overwrote what was there previously.

  $ dpkg -c /debian/pool/main/k/kernel-source-2.4.19/kernel-source-2.4.19_2.4.19-4_all.deb
  drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2002-10-16 13:53:58 ./
  drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2002-10-16 13:53:58 ./usr/
  drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2002-10-16 13:57:23 ./usr/src/
  -rw-r--r-- root/root  25645873 2002-10-16 13:57:20 ./usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.19.tar.bz2
  drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2002-10-16 13:53:58 ./usr/share/
  drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2002-10-16 13:53:58 ./usr/share/doc/
  drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2002-10-16 13:54:30 ./usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19/
  -rw-r--r-- root/root      1335 1999-07-14 17:06:07 ./usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19/copyright
  -rw-r--r-- root/root      6868 2002-10-16 13:42:06 ./usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19/changelog.gz
  -rw-r--r-- root/root       804 2002-09-01 02:15:04 ./usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19/README.grub.gz
  -rw-r--r-- root/root     14936 2002-09-01 02:15:03 ./usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19/debian.README.gz
  -rw-r--r-- root/root       868 1999-01-08 05:34:38 ./usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19/README.tecra.gz
  -rw-r--r-- root/root      8153 2002-05-03 22:17:06 ./usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19/README.headers.gz
  -rw-r--r-- root/root      6120 2002-08-03 01:39:42 ./usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19/README.gz
  -rw-r--r-- root/root      2771 2001-12-02 00:24:18 ./usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19/README.modules.gz
  -rw-r--r-- root/root      4424 2002-01-07 15:46:52 ./usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19/Flavours.gz
  -rw-r--r-- root/root      2284 2001-04-24 09:09:19 ./usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19/sample.module.rules.gz
  -rw-r--r-- root/root      2191 2001-07-06 20:53:01 ./usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19/Rationale.gz
  -rw-r--r-- root/root       433 2000-02-15 22:14:29 ./usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19/sample.module.control.gz
  -rw-r--r-- root/root        51 2002-10-16 13:53:58 ./usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19/Buildinfo
  -rw-r--r-- root/root      1507 2002-10-16 13:42:06 ./usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19/README.Debian.gz

So no, it will only have overwritten the compressed tarball in /usr/src,
not the unpacked directory.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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