Bug#41025: marked as done (Upgrading pcmcia-cs when using ethernet card)
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Subject: Upgrading pcmcia-cs when using ethernet card
From: Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf@IMSL.shinshu-u.ac.jp>
Date: 09 Jul 1999 11:02:09 +0900
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Package: apt
Version: 0.3.11
I depend on a PCMCIA ethernet card for my network connection. When
upgrading `pcmcia-cs' all PCMCIA services are (have to be?) shut down.
This effectively cuts my network connection. As a result, ftp-ing the
package or accessing it on an remote file system is no longer possible
and the upgrade fails miserably.
I hacked up a little shell script (untested as of yet), that aims to
work around this without user intervention. I use a local mirror of
either stable or unstable and an ftp archive as a backup of stable.
Note that `--download-only' will not get anything if the package to
get is on the NFS mounted file system.
#! /bin/sh
#
# Updating pcmcia-cs is broken in apt, work-around. First install
# all dependencies. Next try to download a copy of pcmcia-cs. In
# case it does not result in a package in /var/cache/apt/archives,
# copy the version on the local mirror which is the newer version.
#
fs=/mnt/debian # NFS mounted local mirror
depends="`apt-get --simulate install pcmcia-cs |
grep ^Inst |
sed -e 's/^Inst//' -e 's/\[.*$//' |
sed -e 's/^ pcmcia-cs//'`"
apt-get install $depends >&4
apt-get --download-only install pcmcia-cs >&4
find /var/cache/apt/archives -name 'pcmcia-cs_*.deb' -exec ftp=yes
if test "$ftp" != yes
then
arch="`dpkg --print-architecture`"
# This assumes there is only one line with $fs ...
version="`grep $fs /etc/apt/sources.list | cut -d' ' -f3`"
find $fs/dists/$version/binary-$arch/main \
-name 'pcmcia-cs_*.deb' -exec cp \{} /tmp \;
fi
umount $fs
/etc/init.d/pcmcia stop
if test "$ftp" = yes
then
apt-get install pcmcia-cs >&4
rm /var/cache/apt/archives/pcmcia-cs_*.deb
else
dpkg --install /tmp/pcmcia-cs_*.deb >&4
rm /tmp/pcmcia-cs_*.deb
fi
/etc/init.d/pcmcia start
mount $fs
I am using potato with kernel 2.0.36.
Methinks the logic for a fix in apt-get should be along very similar
lines. Hope this helps.
--
Olaf Meeuwissen Shinshu University, Japan
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