Re: Potato-Woody Upgrade: Removed Package
Patrick Dahiroc [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi all i'm considering upgrading my potato box to woody over the holidays. i've changed /etc/apt/sources.list to point to woody and commented out security. i then ran apt-get update and apt-get --simulate dist-upgrade. the output of dist-upgrade was a little troubling. You don't need to comment out the security line. There's even some packages (like imp and horde) that are about the same version in stable/testing/unstable so that a when a security update occurs, a newer version will appear in security a few days before it appears in woody. -- dist-upgrade OUTPUT -- Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... The following packages will be REMOVED: data-dumper gnucash kbd modconf modutils perl-5.005 sysvinit util-linux xcontrib xemacs20-nomule xmailtool xmanpages xpm4g snip WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! sysvinit util-linux (due to sysvinit) 421 packages upgraded, 79 newly installed, 13 to remove and 2 not upgraded. -- dist-upgrade OUTPUT -- there is a warning that sysvinit and util-linux will be removed. is this to suppose to happen? No, that's not supposed to happen. Those are both Priority: Required/Essential: Yes. I'd try upgrading the important stuff individually first, like dpkg, apt, debconf, libc6, and whatever else I left out before doing a dist-upgrade. Or, try dselect and see if it gives a better clue of why dpkg wants to remove that stuff. -- Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bignachos.com
Re: Potato-Woody Upgrade: Removed Package
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 01:06:38PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: -snip- -- dist-upgrade OUTPUT -- Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... The following packages will be REMOVED: data-dumper gnucash kbd modconf modutils perl-5.005 sysvinit util-linux xcontrib xemacs20-nomule xmailtool xmanpages xpm4g snip WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! sysvinit util-linux (due to sysvinit) 421 packages upgraded, 79 newly installed, 13 to remove and 2 not upgraded. -- dist-upgrade OUTPUT -- there is a warning that sysvinit and util-linux will be removed. is this to suppose to happen? No, that's not supposed to happen. Those are both Priority: Required/Essential: Yes. I'd try upgrading the important stuff individually first, like dpkg, apt, debconf, libc6, and whatever else I left out before doing a dist-upgrade. Or, try dselect and see if it gives a better clue of why dpkg wants to remove that stuff. i did the upgrade yesterday, and along the lines of brian's suggestion, this worked for me: 1) change apt sources to point to woody 2) apt-get update 3) apt-get -u install apt apt-utils dpkg debconf perl 4) apt-get -u dist-upgrade worked very well. i did have to do a little postinstall massaging (missing symlink from /etc/X11/X to my server) but that was it. good luck. -- Serge Rey http://typhoon.sdsu.edu/rey.html Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. - Philip K. Dick pgp5vEsYy2HOn.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Potato-Woody Upgrade: Removed Package
On Thursday 22 November 2001 04:54 pm, Serge Rey wrote: i did the upgrade yesterday, and along the lines of brian's suggestion, this worked for me: 1) change apt sources to point to woody 2) apt-get update 3) apt-get -u install apt apt-utils dpkg debconf perl 4) apt-get -u dist-upgrade worked very well. i did have to do a little postinstall massaging (missing symlink from /etc/X11/X to my server) but that was it. good luck. I've recently put three boxes together (new for me; pass down of mine to the mizzus, pass down of hers to a friend) and this has worked well for me. apt-get install debconf apt-utils has brought the other essential packages (including perl and dpkg) with it though. x was not installed prior to the upgrade on any of these boxes though. bob
