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

2008-08-18 Thread Brian May
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]

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

2008-08-16 Thread Henning Glawe
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

2008-08-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
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

2008-08-14 Thread Brian May
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

issues with aptitude dist-upgrade from etch to lenny

2008-08-13 Thread Henning Glawe
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

2008-08-13 Thread Niko Tyni
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 fail.