issues with aptitude dist-upgrade from etch to lenny

Moin, seems like in the dist-upgrade from etch to lenny is one very annoying (and old, AFAIR I hit it already in woody->sarge and sarge->etch) problem: perl is in an unusable state during the upgrade and causes maintainer scripts to fail. I was following way: - update from etch and etch-security -

Re: issues with aptitude dist-upgrade from etch to lenny

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 03:40:15PM +0200, Henning Glawe wrote: > seems like in the dist-upgrade from etch to lenny is one very annoying (and > old, AFAIR I hit it already in woody->sarge and sarge->etch) problem: perl is > in an unusable state during the upgrade and causes maintainer scripts to >

Re: issues with aptitude dist-upgrade from etch to lenny

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 09:12:03PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 03:40:15PM +0200, Henning Glawe wrote: > > the maintainer-script errors were perl-related: the interpreter could not > > find modules (all from perl-base) in @INC. > > further investigation showed that perl-base wa

Re: issues with aptitude dist-upgrade from etch to lenny

Henning Glawe schreef: > Moin, > seems like in the dist-upgrade from etch to lenny is one very annoying > (and old, AFAIR I hit it already in woody->sarge and sarge->etch) > problem: perl is in an unusable state during the upgrade and causes > maintainer scripts to fail. > > I was following way: >

Re: issues with aptitude dist-upgrade from etch to lenny

Henning Glawe wrote: i worked around this by installing perl-base from lenny using dpkg. which also failed due to the dependency loop between perl and perl-base. dpkg --configure perl perl-base perl-modules then put the perl back to a usable state (as dependency loops are fine, as long as dpkg

Re: issues with aptitude dist-upgrade from etch to lenny

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 09:12:03PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > BTW, I think there must be something wrong with your description: > /usr/bin/perl is in perl-base, and it certainly should find the modules > in perl-base itself... ok, did the update starting from my system-backup; error-messages in the

Re: issues with aptitude dist-upgrade from etch to lenny

Hi, On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 02:16:58PM +0200, Henning Glawe wrote: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 09:12:03PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > > BTW, I think there must be something wrong with your description: > > /usr/bin/perl is in perl-base, and it certainly should find the modules > > in perl-base itself.

Re: issues with aptitude dist-upgrade from etch to lenny

Henning Glawe wrote: you are right... sorry for the sloppy research :S... think it must have been the perl-base<->perl-modules version mismatch. I'll try to reproduce this immediately. Yes, I think this is the issue. I wrote an ugly script to reproduce from a almost pristine etch chroot[1]