On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 12:13:17AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > To test the upgrade process, I've done basically the following: > > * Installed a potato system by using dselect (the "advanced method"), > accepting the defaults (packages with priority >= standard). > > * apt-get install debconf (replacing debconf-tiny). > > * Make /etc/apt/sources.list point to woody. > > * "dselect update". > > * "dselect select" and resolve a few dependencies and conflicts in the > logical way. > > * "dselect install". This is the fun part: > > [...] > 93% [Scanning packages]Template parse error near "" at > /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 102, <TEMPLATES> chunk 2. > E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error code (29) > E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt > Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the > packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors > or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors > above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again > Press enter to continue. > > > installation script returned error exit status 100. > Press <enter> to continue. > > > I'm sure there are good workarounds for this (for example, using > "apt-get dist-upgrade" instead) but I'm very worried about the fact > that this may happen much more often than it should. > > Does somebody know what is the exact nature of this bug? > Yep, I had to do apt-get install debconf after the dselect update to solve the problem
> Perhaps this is some kind of design flaw in dselect/apt/debconf/whatever > that we can't fix retroactively? I don't know if using apt-get dist-upgrade would help, 'couse remember you ar upgrading a system > > Have we reached the point where we will be telling our users not to > use dselect to do upgrades in the release-notes for woody? > > Thanks. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- ----------------------- Oscar Andres Riveros M. Gerente General Nimonic LTDA Bogota, Colombia -----------------------
