Package: upgrade-reports Severity: normal In a base install of lenny (with only openssh-server added beyond the "standard task"), the following is observed when trying to upgrade from lenny to squeeze, following a procedure that reflects the current state of the release notes.
Of particular note is that libuuid-perl, which is a dependency of linux-base in squeeze, is not installed at this stage in lenny. # sed -i 's/lenny/squeeze/;s/^.*volatile/#&/' /etc/apt/sources.list # apt-get update # aptitude install linux-image-`uname -r | sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,'` [...] The following packages are BROKEN: perl The following NEW packages will be installed: firmware-linux-free{a} libuuid-perl{a} linux-base{a} linux-image-2.6.32-5-686{a} linux-image-686 The following packages will be upgraded: libuuid1 perl-base The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed: uuid-runtime 2 packages upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 201 not upgraded. Need to get 28.7MB of archives. After unpacking 78.6MB will be used. The following packages have unmet dependencies: perl: Depends: perl-base (= 5.10.0-19lenny2) but 5.10.1-15 is to be installed. The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Remove the following packages: perl perl-modules Leave the following dependencies unresolved: exim4-base recommends perl-modules Score is -16 Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] ^C Eek! Trying again with apt-get instead: # apt-get install linux-image-`uname -r | sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,'` [...] The following extra packages will be installed: firmware-linux-free libdb4.7 libuuid-perl libuuid1 linux-base linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 perl perl-base perl-modules Suggested packages: linux-doc-2.6.32 perl-doc libterm-readline-gnu-perl libterm-readline-perl-perl make Recommended packages: uuid-runtime The following NEW packages will be installed firmware-linux-free libdb4.7 libuuid-perl linux-base linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 linux-image-686 The following packages will be upgraded: libuuid1 perl perl-base perl-modules 4 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 199 not upgraded. Need to get 36.6MB of archives. After this operation, 81.0MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? ^C That now looks much nicer and should allow us to upgrade the kernel etc to do the appropriate udev dance. A couple of related points: * upgrading aptitude prior to trying this out doesn't help * aptitude is capable of doing the right thing here with some prompting: - say "n" at the [Y/n/q/?] prompt to get another solution; the 3rd presented solution is to upgrade perl as well - or, tell aptitude to install perl at the same time as the kernel: aptitude install linux-image-`uname -r | sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,'` perl * the release notes for squeeze currently say to use lenny's aptitude to install the squeeze kernel. That seems to be bad advice (use apt-get instead). * installing lenny's libuuid-perl first is another valid approach to this, but would require yet another step for the user to perform in the upgrade. (but this step may possibly be easier than working through a large pile of perl's rdeps, depending on what sort of versioned-dependencies other complex sets of packages have on perl or perl modules -- I've not explored under what circumstances this is actually a problem) * Users of backports.org kernels will actually have a lot easier time of all of this because they will already have lenny's libuuid-perl installed and also a kernel that will work with udev. Telling people to go via the kernel on backports would a real possibility to all this, but it's a level of unwelcome complexity. (thanks to CutMeOwnThroat on #debian for highlighting this problem) cheers Stuart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org