Etch Lenny Squeeze upgrades and sysv-rc

2012-03-05 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi,

I don't know if it is because several of my servers started out as Etch then 
got upgraded to Lenny end then to Squeeze, or if it is something in the Lenny 
to Squeeze upgrade but

During most of my upgrades the sysv-rc upgrade failed at first because of the 
old libdevmapper1.02 package.
The solution was simple as there was already an installed libdevmapper1.02.1 
version installed at that time which did not have the problem.
So just
  # aptitude purge libdevmapper1.02
  # dpkg-reconfigure sysv-rc
and the problem is gone. However, I was unable to find anything about this in 
the Squeeze upgrade notes.

Did I miss something? Or is it because they started out as Etch? I am assuming 
so but the funny thing is that at the start of the upgrade I did an
  # apt-get autoremove
And that did not remove the old libdevmapper1.02 which had status c at the time 
of the sysv-rc upgrade.

# aptitude search libdevmapper
v   libdevmapper
   -
p   libdevmapper-dev
   - The Linux Kernel Device Mapper header files
c   libdevmapper1.02
   - The Linux Kernel Device Mapper userspace library
i A libdevmapper1.02.1  
   - The Linux Kernel Device Mapper userspace library

Nor did
  # aptitude purge ~c
delete that package when I ran that at the beginning of my upgrade run.
So probably the libdevmapper1.02.1 was installed during the upgrade process, 
which is kinda funny as a default Lenny installation already has the 1.02.1 
version.

For whoever still needs to upgrade their Lenny system to Squeeze, now you know 
what it going on. I'm finished as of last week. :-)

Bonno Bloksma


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Re: Etch Lenny Squeeze upgrades and sysv-rc

2012-03-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 05 mar 12, 12:29:30, Bonno Bloksma wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I don't know if it is because several of my servers started out as 
 Etch then got upgraded to Lenny end then to Squeeze, or if it is 
 something in the Lenny to Squeeze upgrade but
...
 c   libdevmapper1.02  
  - The Linux Kernel Device Mapper userspace library

It looks like that package is pre-lenny (probably from etch), so you 
missed the step about cleaning your system of obsolete packages before 
starting the upgrade.

For the archives, 'aptitude purge ~o' will purge all packages that are 
not present in any repositories you have configured.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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