On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 04:54:11PM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: [snip] > > ANY package that is needed by the packaging system(and this does not only > > include dpkg support scripts, but debconf, and some maintainer scripts, > > including adduser) <b><i><blink>NEEDS TO NOT BREAK PERIOD.</blink></i></b> [snip] > BTW: upgrading potato->sid is, in general, NOT broken (i just tested). [snip]
I've heard this from one other person also. He says he never had a problem upgrading from potato to woody (before it was sid). However I have had this perl problem on every system I upgraded from potato to woody (and sid recently also). It is easily fixed by going into "/var/cache/apt/archives" and running a "dpkg -i" of "*perl*" before continuing with the upgrade. Last time, if I remember correctly it was "perl-5.6" that didn't get installed before trying to run the postinst of "vim". The symptoms are missing anythings in "@INC", which just means that you need 1 or 2 perl packages installed by hand first, which by now are allready downloaded into "/var/cache/apt/archives". The way I update is first to upgrade to the latest potato by running dselect (Update, Select, Install). Then go into /etc/apt/sources and change all instances of potato to sid. Then run dselect (Update, Select, Install) again. I have only upgraded 5 systems to woody/sid myself, but they all had this perl problem. -Ralph