Re: Bug#147543: apt-get dist-upgrade potato->woody removes vi/vim files
On Tue, 21 May 2002 15:25:49 -0700
Andrew Sharp <andy@netfall.com> wrote:
> Forgive my frustration with this, but why bother having a bug
> reporting and tracking system if the bugs reported are just to be
> blown off with flip remarks like "apt just installs packages. It
> doesn't remove files from other packages." It certainly removes files
> under many circumstances, including during upgrading and during
> removing operations. *I* certainly didn't delete /usr/bin/vim.
>
> This bug report isn't vague, but it is very simple. I've upgraded at
> least five potato installations to woody, on i386, powerpc and sparc,
> and only this time has this happened. Vim was there and installed in
> potato and used daily. System was upgraded to woody. /usr/bin/vim
> and all other related files and links are now deleted, and no new
> files are installed in their place. The new, woody, version of vim
> was NOT installed. This is fairly serious(or maybe just seriously
> annoying). After the upgrade, dselect showed the old, 5.6.070 version
> of vim is (supposedly) installed, but of course the files aren't
> there.
You ARE being vague.
Tell me what you are really experiencing not what you think you
are experiencing.
Does
# update-alternatives --config vi
fix it ?
What does /usr/bin/vi point to, and /etc/alternatives/vi point to ?
(hint, use ls -l )
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