On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 12:00:57PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 10:12:24AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 01:51:47PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > > > Technically the following solution should be possible (pseudocode): > > > > Not to mention that even if debconf is installed, nothing says that the > > system (especially during a libc6 upgrade) is in any state to start > > debconf up. > > At least in the case when apt-utils is installed on the system the > debconf questions are asked at a time when tho libc upgrade hasn't even > started. > > Besides my impression with many libc upgrades on Debian machines is that > there's at any time a usable libc installed, or are you thinking of a > specific problem I don't know of?
Just because there's a usable libc, doesn't mean everything else is usable. Go back through the archives of what happens what people hit ^C during a libc install (even after unpack). -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/
