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Subject: "dselect" corrupted "pppd" by not requiring "dpkg-perl"
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Subject: "dselect" corrupted "pppd" by not requiring "dpkg-perl"
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0.23.2
After a partial FTP fetch using dselect, dpkg partially deleted
required libraries for pppd and was unable to replace them. This
broke my network service and made it very difficult to retrieve
the package "dpkg-perl" which turned out to be a prerequisite.
Some detail ...
I am using Debian 2, kernel version 2.0.34
and libc was being upgraded at the time - don't know which version
After doing the initial configuration with the LOADLIN and the dinstall
combination, I found out how to enable /dev/ttyS3 and started pppd.
I then permitted dselect to start pulling stuff down using ftp from
gatech's website. After a few hours (I was asleep), the ftp stopped.
When I noticed, I permitted dselect to install the stuff it had already
fetched and I got a noticeable functionality improvement.
After starting the automatic ftp again, I left it alone for a few hours
and then the ftp crashed. I noticed because ping suddenly got faster.
Again, I permitted the install to occur and tried to restart the ftp.
This time, "pon" caused an error report that pppd couldn't find library
libpam0g. This was because dpkg had apparently removed the old one,
stored part of the new one, but not finished the job properly.
The package definition seems to be ok; the ppp stuff correctly
lists the stuff it couldn't find as prerequisites. So no worries there.
It had even finished downloading all the directly listed packages.
The failure to configure was because package dpkg-perl was missing,
because it hadn't been downloaded and but seemed needed to do configuration.
I suspect. I went back to DOS and connected with the site and,
by reference to the available file, found and retrieved the dpkg-perl
and encouraged dselect to install it. Much happier now, dpkg itself
reviewed the ppp package and traced dependencies to detect the lack
of libpam0g-util so that it still couldn't finish off the pppd.
*** So, is dpkg-perl a general dependency that is implied everywhere
*** and therefore dselect/dpkg should know better than to get in this mess?
Now, this file was already on my system, otherwise dpkg wouldn't have
started to trash pppd (I assume). In fact, a careful look does
show that it is located down under the methods/ftp tree. However,
I can't get at that area in an automated way because, if I try to
switch dselect back over to ftp, it insists on trying to contact
the remote host before letting me install whatever is already here.
$ dpkg --list dpkg
** Perhaps there should be some friendly way to get the access method
** changed over to ftp without needing to contact the remote host?
So, I created a directory for the 'from mounted filesystem' option
of dselect and copied the relevant archive file up there. Now,
it managed to install the file and happy agreed that the pppd was
now fully reconfigured again. I switched consoles, managed to
invoke pppd normally, switched back and changed the access method
to ftp inside dselect. When I told it to install downloaded files,
it finished cleaning up some of the other stuff it had fetched.
I then fired it off to get another ten megabytes or so.
[Why aren't I using a CD? Because I can't get my CDROM working (yet)]
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Subject: dpkg-perl is no longer
From: Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Closing this very old bug because it involves dpkg-perl, which doesn't
exist anymore.
=46rom a guess, Conflicts were involved (which was why a library was
removed).
Scott
--=20
Have you ever, ever felt like this?
Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
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