On Wednesday 08 May 2013, Wookey wrote: > +++ Phil Endecott [2013-05-08 09:13 +0000]: > > Wookey <wookey <at> wookware.org> writes: > > > Your original install was built before the name for the armhf linker > > > was agreed between distros. Once it was agreed (with a different path > > > to the one Debian originally picked) everything had to be > > > (incompatibly) rebuilt. > > > > Hmmm. It's disappointing that apt didn't know about this. Isn't this > > sort of compatibility between packages exactly the sort of thing that it > > is supposed to track? > > No, not for unreleased early port builds. It (we) would manage such a > transition if it was in a released port, but that's a big pile of work > we decided wasn't worthwhile/necessary in this case. > > > Anyway, I'm still unsure what I should do now. Presumably I will have to > > do some sort of apt-get upgrade to replace all packages (or at least all > > packages with executables). But I think the first thing it will try to > > do is to replace libc again, and delete /lib/ld-linux.so.3. Maybe I > > should make the symlink immutable, or something. > > Yes, replacing libc (carefully, with a root shell open) fix up symlink > (until upgrade complete) and then everything else should work. > > Don't forget to re-install everything, not just stuff that has a new > verison number (dpkg --reinstall, probably combined with a --reinstall does not exist in either the command help (dpkg -?) or in man dpkg. If it exists should it not be documented?
David > --get-selections and set-seletions) > > > Wookey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
