Problems after mixing Sarge and Etch
I inherited from my long gone predecessor the administration of an old
server running Sarge. It is used for Bugzilla and Mantis and partly as
webserver.
I'm not very familiar with Debian, I'm a Mandriva man myself, but I'm
the only one in the company left that has Linux experience. To keep
the system up-to-date I do a "aptitude update && aptitude upgrade -y"
each time I get a Security Advisory email .
I think it was last week there were a whole bunch of packages that
where held back. After some surfing I concluded that I had to do a
"aptitude dist-upgrade" and indeed almost all packages could now be
installed. Only a few weren't:
moria:~# aptitude upgrade
[...]
The following packages have been kept back:
file libkrb53 libmagic1
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not
upgraded.
[..]
However, since yesterday we're experiencing problems with PHP. It
seems that with the previous updates the PHP module of Apache was
uninstalled for some reason. The problem is I can't get it to install
again:
moria:~# aptitude install libapache-mod-php4
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
E: Unable to correct dependencies, some packages cannot be installed
E: Unable to resolve some dependencies!
Some packages had unmet dependencies. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libapache-mod-php4: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6) but
2.3.2.ds1-22sarge6 is installed.
Depends: libdb4.4 which is a virtual package.
Depends: libkrb53 (>= 1.4.2) but 1.3.6-2sarge4
is installed and it is kept back.
Depends: libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8c-1) which is a
virtual package.
Depends: apache-common (>= 1.3.34) but
1.3.33-6sarge3 is installed.
That got me wondering...
moria:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib
deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian sarge main contrib
Yep, there's my problem (I guess): I've mixed Sarge with stable and
stable is now Etch.
So finally my questions:
How can I salvage my system?
Will replacing stable with sarge in the sources.list and do a
"aptitude update" and "aptitude upgrade" (or "aptitude dist-upgrade")
solve my problems?
Or should I upgrade the entire system to Etch?
Thanks,
Nick.
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