Bug#37755: general: Woes from upgrading 2.0 -> 2.1

1999-05-16 Thread Martin Schulze
Inaky Perez Gonzalez wrote:
> Package: general
> Version: N/A

> Would like to contribute the problems I experienced when
> upgrading from 2.0 to 2.1 using a 2.2.6 kernel. Hope they are useful.

I have received a report about upgrading as well.  He failed...

But: There were two things which kept his upgrade from failing:
  a) install current dpkg-multicd
  b) install new libc manually

After that a simple dselect update/installation/configure run with
installation/configure repeated upgraded the system.

The system was using a multicd set (basically: the OfficialCD, but with
some additions)

> I attach an script for the upgrade (^Ms removed). The main
> points to note about it is apt-get suddenly died about seven times in
> all the upgrade process (E: Sub-process returned error
> code). Sometimes it was enough to invoke 'dpkg --configure -a' and
> when finished, continue with 'apt-get dist-upgrade', but sometimes it
> left a package in such a state it had to be removed manually from
> /var/lib/dpkg/status [trying to purge or re-install would not do].
> 
> Other than that, it worked fine. I just miss someway to make
> apt-get understand multi-cd. Congratulations to all :)

I've heard that there is apt-cdrom somewhere.

Regards,

Joey

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Bug#37755: general: Woes from upgrading 2.0 -> 2.1

1999-05-15 Thread Inaky Perez Gonzalez
Package: general
Version: N/A

Hi

Would like to contribute the problems I experienced when
upgrading from 2.0 to 2.1 using a 2.2.6 kernel. Hope they are useful.

I attach an script for the upgrade (^Ms removed). The main
points to note about it is apt-get suddenly died about seven times in
all the upgrade process (E: Sub-process returned error
code). Sometimes it was enough to invoke 'dpkg --configure -a' and
when finished, continue with 'apt-get dist-upgrade', but sometimes it
left a package in such a state it had to be removed manually from
/var/lib/dpkg/status [trying to purge or re-install would not do].

Other than that, it worked fine. I just miss someway to make
apt-get understand multi-cd. Congratulations to all :)

Ok, here I include the script log for the upgrade, bz2ipped.

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