Your message dated Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:05:28 +0200
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and subject line Re: tags 153920 moreinfo
has caused the Debian Bug report #153920,
regarding data-dumper/perl-5.005/perl-base upgrade causes an infinite loop in
dpkg
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153920: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=153920
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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.6.15
I'm upgrading from Debian 2.2r6 to 3.0. I have the following packages
installed: perl-5.005-base, version 5.005.03-7.1; and perl-5.005,
version 5.005.03-7.1.
When I try to upgrade to the latest version of perl included with 3.0,
the following error message is printed by dpkg:
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dpkg: considering removing perl-5.005-base in favour of perl-base ...
dpkg: yes, will remove perl-5.005-base in favour of perl-base.
dpkg: regarding .../perl-base_5.6.1-7_i386.deb containing perl-base:
perl-base conflicts with data-dumper
perl-5.005 provides data-dumper and is installed.
dpkg: error processing debian/pool/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.6.1-7_i386.deb
(--install):
conflicting packages - not installing perl-base
Errors were encountered while processing:
debian/pool/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.6.1-7_i386.deb
DPKG ERROR
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dpkg then gets in an infinite loop (at least several hours anyway...)
repeating the same message over and over again.
I would think dpkg would either be able to detect the problem and quit
(at worst), detect the problem and then continue (OK), or figure out
that perl-5.005 also needs to be uninstalled and will be replaced
later in the install process (at best).
I have not yet been able to find a way around the problem. I think
forcing the removal of perl-5.005 will solve the problem in the short
term.
Please contact me for any questions not answered here.
Thanks,
John Larkin
[email protected]
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On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Thomas Hood wrote:
> Can you reproduce the bug with a later version of dpkg?
No answer from bug submitter. Furthermore the message "DPKG ERROR" is
not a message from dpkg (at least not in 1.7.0) so it's not dpkg that
restarted itself but some other frontend (unspecified).
Closing the bug as we can't do anything with it.
Cheers,
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