On Mittwoch, 1. September 2004 11:33, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 03:52:54PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > It seems that our perl upgrade from woody to sarge is not robust if it > > dies in the middle. The X problem below caused the first apt run to fail > > with various parts of perl unpacked and not configured. Then it looks > > like debconf (which uses Iconv) was unable to run. Probably a dpkg > > --configure -a would have cleared this up; reinstalling perl manually > > had the same result. > > [...] > > > Preparing to replace x-dev 4.3.0.dfsg.1-0.woody.1 (using > > .../x-dev_4.3.0.dfsg.1-4_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement x-dev ... > > dpkg: error processing > > /var/cache/apt/archives/x-dev_4.3.0.dfsg.1-4_all.deb (--unpack): trying > > to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/include/X11/DECkeysym.h', which is also in > > package xlibs-dev dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken > > pipe) > > Please note that version number. "4.3.0.dfsg.1-0.woody.1" is some sort of > unofficial backport. > > My versioned conflicts/replaces/provides/etc. cannot be expected to take > into account the crazy things backporters do. > > I will support upgrades from woody systems. I don't think it's reasonable > to expect any Debian developer to support upgrades from loony hybrid > installations using all manner of unofficial packages we've never even > shipped.
Many thanks for providing this excellent system, aside the upgrade issues I had not a single problem since then.... I agree for all X related problems. That perl felt down that much was surprising for me. Somebody mentioned that I should have done a 'dpkg --configure -a' and then the problems should have been resolved for me. If that is true, this should be at the top of a troubleshooting section in the installation and (at least at that time not existing) upgrade manual. Thanks, Rainer