Re: Upgrade problems for sysvinit 2.86.ds1-16 -> 2.86.ds1-18

[Paul Scott <paslist@ultrasw.com>]

Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Sorry for the noise.  Here is yet another script fragment, this time
> to extract the list of installed and upgraded packages in the
> dangerous period.  I did not know about the /var/log/dpkg.log file
> before this morning.
>
>     sed -n "/installed sysvinit 2.86.ds1-16/,/installed sysvinit 2.86.ds1-18/p" /var/log/dpkg.log |
>        awk '/ upgrade / { print $4 } / installed / { print $5 }' | sort -u
>
> These packages, if they contain an init.d script, are the ones needing
> a reinstall.
>   
At the moment I have to carry the files on a floppy to the problem
computer (a half hour away) since this broke my wireless.  I am going to
try hostapd, wireless-tools, and pcmciautils.  Does that sound about right?

Also sysvinit 2.86.dsl-18 is not yet available for sid AFAICT.

Paul Scott