Re: Fw: Errors on upgrading from etch to lenny

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 07:04:46 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Wed May 7 2008, Teodor wrote:
> > This bug #476987 is fixed in the exim4-base from sid. I fixed this
> > yesterday like this:
> > # apt-get -t sid install exim4-base
> >
> > The transition to lenny is mainly blocked by the perl5.10 transition.
> 
> I am running Lenny, and I tried that:
> #apt-get update
> <SNIP>
> # apt-get -t sid install exim4-base
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree       
> Reading state information... Done
> exim4-base is already the newest version.

My guess is that you do not have "sid" in your sources.list, therefore
apt-get ignores the "-t sid" part and tells you that the newest version
it knows about (i.e. the one from Lenny) is already installed.

> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 17 not upgraded.
> 2 not fully installed or removed.
> After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
> Setting up exim4-daemon-light (4.69-2+b1) ...
> Starting MTA:exim: incompatible command-line options or arguments
> invoke-rc.d: initscript exim4, action "start" failed.
> dpkg: error processing exim4-daemon-light (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of exim4:
>  exim4 depends on exim4-daemon-light | exim4-daemon-heavy | 
> exim4-daemon-custom; however:
>   Package exim4-daemon-light is not configured yet.
>   Package exim4-daemon-heavy is not installed.
>   Package exim4-daemon-custom is not installed.
> dpkg: error processing exim4 (--configure):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  exim4-daemon-light
>  exim4
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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