On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 01:55:37PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 11:58:48PM -0300, Philipp Kern wrote: > > To explain the situation: mktemp is essential since 2006-05-18, which > > is the version in Etch. ca-certificates does, of course, not depend on > > it, although it needs it in postinst. This is already the second bug > > report I got about this issue, so it seems not that uncommon. > > > > The problem: Machines upgraded from Sarge to Etch won't get mktemp > > pulled in, because nothing depends on essential packages. They won't > > FWIW, etch's debianutils depends on mktemp, and debianutils was > essential in sarge too.
Do you have debianutils installed? How did you upgrade? It is not supported to skip a whole release (i.e. like Sarge to Lenny). Kind regards, Philipp Kern
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