Error upgrading to woody: mv: cannot create file `/etc/exim/exim.conf'

2001-09-04 Thread tluxt
Starting from a (IIRC) rather basic potato system, I did (essentially): change sources.list to point to testing apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade I got the following error after much stuff had installed: Preparing to replace exim 3.12-10 (using .../archives/exim_3.31-1_i386.deb) ... mv:

Re: Error upgrading to woody: mv: cannot create file `/etc/exim/exim.conf'

2001-09-04 Thread der.hans
Am 03. Sep, 2001 schwäzte tluxt so: On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 12:20:57AM -0600, Phil Reardon wrote: On Monday 13 August 2001 11:36 pm, John Galt wrote: mkdir /etc/exim then rerun apt-get dist-upgrade... You won't have to re-download the 166M, BTW. That does fix it. Ran into it

Re: Error upgrading to woody: mv: cannot create file `/etc/exim/exim.conf'

2001-09-04 Thread tluxt
--- der.hans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That does fix it. Ran into it somewhere the other day. Yes, this is a bug. Thanks for the confirmation. I have just done that fix, and I think (after having several more errors, but just redoing apt-get dist-upgrade several times), I may have succeeded

Re: Error upgrading to woody: mv: cannot create file `/etc/exim/exim.conf'

2001-09-04 Thread Colin Watson
(Mail-Followup-To: set to -user only. I'd also appreciate not being directly cc'ed on your questions; I read both -user and -devel, so I got three copies of this!) On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 11:01:56PM -0700, tluxt wrote: In fact, the directory: /etc/exim does not exist. You can create it

Re: Error upgrading to woody: mv: cannot create file `/etc/exim/exim.conf'

2001-09-04 Thread der.hans
Am 04. Sep, 2001 schwäzte tluxt so: Thanks for the confirmation. I have just done that fix, and I think (after having several more errors, but just redoing apt-get dist-upgrade several times), I may have succeeded in getting upgraded to woody. (At least my final a-g d-u did nothing but