At Fri, 16 May 2003 15:14:39 +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: > > On Thu 15 May 2003, GOTO Masanori wrote: > > > > Did you upgrade from woody to sarge or sid? > > Eh, from testing to testing... > The last time I did a dist-upgrade had been some time ago.
It's ok, this script works once when upgrading from glibc <= 2.2.94 to 2.3.1 or higher. I guess your "testing" was 2.2.94 or lower. > > Which awk version do you use? > > mawk 1.3.3-9 > > > It seems original-awk does not work well. We should change to "mawk"? > > No :-) > > > > dpkg gives an extra empty line if a not-installed package name is given, > > > which is probably what is confusing the awk script. > > > > Could you provide us your "dpkg -s apache apache2-common proftpd"? > > Between the lines: > -------- > Package: apache I don't understand why you thought "dpkg gives an extra empty line if a not-installed package name is given". Look at libc6.postinst. You see some packages which are not installed on your machine, don't you? Regards, -- gotom
