Bug#471718: aptitude fails during upgrade

2008-03-24 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > Well, when libfoo1 and libfoo2 coexist on the disk nothing breaks. And > > that's done with most libraries but it's not done with apt as the binary > > package is always "apt" and not "libaptX" followed by "libaptY". > What if foo-2 (Depends: libfoo2) i

Bug#471718: aptitude fails during upgrade

2008-03-24 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 08:54:21PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > I was of the impression that dpkg attempts to let packages work > > normally even during upgrades. > > Well, dpkg offers some guaranty but there's no guaranty that a Depends is > respec

Bug#471718: aptitude fails during upgrade

2008-03-24 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Justin Pryzby wrote: > I was of the impression that dpkg attempts to let packages work > normally even during upgrades. Well, dpkg offers some guaranty but there's no guaranty that a Depends is respected when the package is not configured: Quoting policy: | A Depends field ta

Bug#471718: aptitude fails during upgrade

2008-03-24 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Justin Pryzby wrote: > $ aptitude search session manag > aptitude: error while loading shared libraries: libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6: > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 06:01:52PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > You're saying

Bug#471718: aptitude fails during upgrade

2008-03-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 09:48:23AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > This is not a bug in aptitude. Upgrading apt removes the old library > > that aptitude links against, and until the new aptitude is installed > > ther

Bug#471718: aptitude fails during upgrade

2008-03-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-03-20 09:48 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Daniel Burrows wrote: > >> This is not a bug in aptitude. Upgrading apt removes the old library > >> that aptitude links against, and until the new aptitude is installed > >>

Bug#471718: aptitude fails during upgrade

2008-03-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-03-20 09:48 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Daniel Burrows wrote: >> This is not a bug in aptitude. Upgrading apt removes the old library >> that aptitude links against, and until the new aptitude is installed >> there's no way it will be able to link. Vice versa (

Bug#471718: aptitude fails during upgrade

2008-03-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > The only problem is that the call to ldconfig happens only when apt is > configured and thus between apt's unpacking and apt's configuration, any > usage of the upgraded libapt might fail (as the aptitude call showed). In fact, after discussing with Au

Bug#471718: aptitude fails during upgrade

2008-03-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Daniel Burrows wrote: > This is not a bug in aptitude. Upgrading apt removes the old library > that aptitude links against, and until the new aptitude is installed > there's no way it will be able to link. Vice versa (and what's indicated > above), upgrading aptitude causes

Bug#471718: aptitude fails during upgrade

2008-03-19 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 02:02:27PM -0400, Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Package: aptitude,dpkg,libc6 > > I think that this should never happen. Did something break due to the > ldconfig updates? > > While doing an aptitude install aptitude/unstable, I ran a separate > co

Bug#471718: aptitude fails during upgrade

2008-03-19 Thread Aurelien Jarno
reassign 471718 aptitude,dpkg thanks Justin Pryzby a écrit : > Package: aptitude,dpkg,libc6 > > I think that this should never happen. Did something break due to the > ldconfig updates? > > While doing an aptitude install aptitude/unstable, I ran a separate > command: > > $ aptitude search ses

Bug#471718: aptitude fails during upgrade

2008-03-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Justin Pryzby wrote: > Package: aptitude,dpkg,libc6 > > I think that this should never happen. Did something break due to the > ldconfig updates? > > While doing an aptitude install aptitude/unstable, I ran a separate > command: > > $ aptitude search session manag > aptitud

Bug#471718: aptitude fails during upgrade

2008-03-19 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: aptitude,dpkg,libc6 I think that this should never happen. Did something break due to the ldconfig updates? While doing an aptitude install aptitude/unstable, I ran a separate command: $ aptitude search session manag aptitude: error while loading shared libraries: libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.