Bob, Thanks for the clear and informative message. I think this should be included with the autoup.sh documentation, it certainly explains things not described there.
Gregory Guthrie --------------------------------- At 10:53 PM 6/28/98 -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: >Hi, > During the upgrade, autoup.sh must remove several critical >packages in order to upgrade them i.e. in bo, perl is one package; in >hamm perl is provided by perl-base and perl. The hamm version of perl >depends on perl-base, but perl-base conflicts with the bo version of >perl. Therefore it is necessary to remove the bo version of perl. > > Since many packages depend upon perl, dpkg must deconfigure these >packages, then remove perl. It then installs perl-base and perl in >sequence and configures the packages that were unconfigured. >During that process, a number of alarming warning messages are >generated. > > If autoup.sh completes normally (displays a message saying you >now have a libc6 system, and discusses wtmp and utmp), all of these >warning messages may be ignored. > > When you enter dselect after autoup finishes, the best course of >action is to use the access, update and install modules - don't even >enter the select module. In that case all packages on your system >that have an upgraded version (almost all of them) are automatically >upgraded without any further action on your part. You are then free >to use the select function to add any package you might desire. Most >development libraries are removed by autoup.sh, and are not >automatically replaced. Autoup.sh creates a file >"removed-<today's_date>" in the current directory recording the >packages that were removed. This provides a guide to the packages >that should be reinstalled with dselect or manually with dpkg -i. > >Bob >-- _ > |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USA PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9 > > >Gregory Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I just did an upgrade bo --> hamm using autoup.sh. >> >> Amazing. But, there are a number of steps which left me cold; and flipping >> a coinn for the right action. >> >> 1) during the autoup it had seeral "conflicts", adn it was not clear to me >> if I needed to do anything about them. E.g. I think it tried to remove >> something that depended on Perl, but I had perl installed, or something... >> "dependency problems .. libwww-perl depends on Perl, but perl is not >> installed. >> ... libnet >> >> Anyway, there was no clear indication if all was OK, if it was a comment, >> or if some remedial action was needed (later)., >> >> 2) After update, it says "now use dselect to upgrade the rest of your >> system", then reboot. >> >> ?? How do I know what to upgrade? I would like to say; "whatever needs an >> upgrade, if I have it installed, do it." >> Instead, I had to go through dselect, look at hundreds of packages, try to >> remember which I had selected, and decide if they need update. Am I missing >> something here? >> >> Greg Guthrie >> -------------------------------------------------------- >> Dr. Gregory Guthrie >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (515)472-1125 Fax: -1103 >> Computer Science Department >> College of Science and Technology >> Maharishi University of Management >> (Maharishi International University 1971-1995) >> -------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
