On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 09:56:31AM -0700, Ron Farrer wrote: > Francesco P. Lovergine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > So I could try to install on a freshen installation.... > > I had problems in dist-upgrading to testing. > > dist-upgrad'ing is currently the only way to get to testing. There are > not (yet) any boot-floppies. What sort of problems did you have? > > Ron > >
Ok, this is the results of apt-get update / apt-get dist-upgrade to testing from latest potato (with security upgrades only, not proposed): Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: xpm4g The following NEW packages will be installed: automake console-common cpp-2.95 file g++-2.95 g77-2.95 gcc-2.95 gettext glibc-doc gnome-core gnome-help gperiodic host ifupdown indent ipchains libbz2-1.0 libcap1 libcapplet0 libdb3 libdns4 libfreetype6 libgal4 libgconf11 libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2 libgdk-pixbuf2 libgtkxmhtml1 libisc3 libldap2 liblwres1 liboaf0 libpcre3 libperl5.6 libplot libsasl7 libscrollkeeper0 libssl0.9.6 libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 libterm-readkey-perl libtool libunicode0 libxaw6 libxaw7 manpages-dev net-tools netkit-inetd netkit-ping oaf octave2.0 perl perl-modules portmap python-base r-base rasmol scrollkeeper strace xlibs xmhtml1 yorick zlib-bin The following packages have been kept back gnumeric task-science 181 packages upgraded, 61 newly installed, 1 to remove and 2 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/118MB of archives. After unpacking 56.8MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] [here some interactive pre-configuration questions] (Reading database ... 16532 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libdb2 2:2.4.14-2.7.7.1.c (using .../libdb2_2%3a2.7.7-8_alpha.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libdb2 ... Replacing files in old package libc6.1 ... Preparing to replace locales 2.1.3-18 (using .../locales_2.2.3-5_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement locales ... Preparing to replace cpp 1:2.95.2-13 (using .../cpp_1%3a2.95.3-7_alpha.deb) ... Unpacking replacement cpp ... Selecting previously deselected package cpp-2.95. Unpacking cpp-2.95 (from .../cpp-2.95_1%3a2.95.4-0.010424_alpha.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package g77-2.95. Unpacking g77-2.95 (from .../g77-2.95_1%3a2.95.4-0.010424_alpha.deb) ... Preparing to replace g77 1:2.95.2-13 (using .../g77_1%3a2.95.3-7_alpha.deb) ... Unpacking replacement g77 ... Preparing to replace gcc 1:2.95.2-13 (using .../gcc_1%3a2.95.3-7_alpha.deb) ... Removing old gcc doc directory. Unpacking replacement gcc ... Preparing to replace binutils 2.9.5.0.37-1 (using .../binutils_2.11.90.0.7-2_alpha.deb) ... Unpacking replacement binutils ... Selecting previously deselected package gcc-2.95. Unpacking gcc-2.95 (from .../gcc-2.95_1%3a2.95.4-0.010424_alpha.deb) ... Preparing to replace g++ 1:2.95.2-13 (using .../g++_1%3a2.95.3-7_alpha.deb) ... Unpacking replacement g++ ... Selecting previously deselected package g++-2.95. Unpacking g++-2.95 (from .../g++-2.95_1%3a2.95.4-0.010424_alpha.deb) ... Preparing to replace libstdc++2.10-dev 1:2.95.2-13 (using .../libstdc++2.10-dev_1%3a2.95.4-0.010424_alpha.deb) ... perl: /lib/libc.so.6.1: version `GLIBC_2.2' not found (required by /lib/libdb.so.3) dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... perl: /lib/libc.so.6.1: version `GLIBC_2.2' not found (required by /lib/libdb.so.3) dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libstdc++2.10-dev_1%3a2.95.4-0.010424_alpha.deb (--unpack): subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: regarding .../libc6.1-dev_2.2.3-5_alpha.deb containing libc6.1-dev: libc6.1-dev conflicts with libstdc++2.10-dev (<< 1:2.95.2-15) libstdc++2.10-dev (version 1:2.95.2-13) is installed. dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6.1-dev_2.2.3-5_alpha.deb (--unpack): conflicting packages - not installing libc6.1-dev Preparing to replace libc6.1 2.1.3-18 (using .../libc6.1_2.2.3-5_alpha.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libc6.1 ... Replacing files in old package netbase ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libstdc++2.10-dev_1%3a2.95.4-0.010424_alpha.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6.1-dev_2.2.3-5_alpha.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Already tried to --force... Not better results. My first idea is that we re well far from having a running system (it's not only a boot-floppies problems) on alpha port. Now the machine is in this status. Who interested can contact me to start a debugging session. Maybe it's better if I opened a 'general' bug? -- Francesco P. Lovergine
