Moin, sorry, didn't send this to the bts last time. My patched packages are since then working on about 50 computers at work. Another thought about this: this problem will re-appear if perl is upgraded to 6.0 (or whatever will be the next upstream release).
----- Forwarded message from Henning Glawe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 18:55:03 +0100 To: Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Bug#279232: Perl related upgrade problems woody -> sarge From: Henning Glawe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Bogosity: No, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=0.17.5, scanned=2004-12-13T17:54:44Z, spam_cutoff=9.90e-01 On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 05:55:10PM +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 05:07:15PM +0100, Henning Glawe wrote: > > What seems to be working around the problem somehow is the following change: > > - perl-base: > > Conflicts: perl-modules (<< 5.8.4) > > (so perl-modules is forced to be updated in the next steps) > > - perl-modules: > > Pre-Depends: perl-base (>= 5.8.4) > > > > with these changes, "apt-get dist-upgrade" is forced into the following > > order, which fixes the problem of not-matching perl-base and perl-modules > > during batch updates: > > > > Remove perl-modules 5.6.1 > > Replace perl-base 5.6.1 with 5.8.4 > > Setup perl-base 5.8.4 > > Unpack perl-modules 5.8.4 > > Sorry, but that can't be. "Remove perl-modules 5.6.1" and "Unpack > perl-modules 5.8.4" are one step, that can't be distinct, du you mean > Replace and Setup instead? no. my patched perl-base 5.8 conflicts with the "old" perl-modules. apt-get dist-upgrade resolves the situation exacly like shown. Here is the log output (stdout and stderr combined): -------- apt-get dist-upgrade ---------------------- [...] Removing libi18n-langtags-perl ... dpkg: perl-modules: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you request: dpkg-dev depends on perl-modules; however: Package perl-modules is to be removed. mrtg depends on perl-modules (>= 5.6.0). dh-make-perl depends on libpod-parser-perl; however: Package libpod-parser-perl is not installed. Package perl-modules which provides libpod-parser-perl is to be removed. Removing perl-modules ... tar: ./control: time stamp 2004-12-13 15:03:59 is 4351 s in the future (Reading database ... 138752 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace perl-base 5.6.1-8.7 (using .../perl-base_5.8.4-5.1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement perl-base ... Setting up perl-base (5.8.4-5.1) ... tar: ./control: time stamp 2004-12-13 16:15:15 is 8620 s in the future Selecting previously deselected package perl-modules. (Reading database ... 138741 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking perl-modules (from .../perl-modules_5.8.4-5.1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package liblocale-gettext-perl. [...] ---------------------------------------------------- My modified packages are the ones with the above changes: ------- apt-cache show perl-base perl-modules ------ [...] Package: perl-base Essential: yes Priority: required Section: base Installed-Size: 1902 Maintainer: Brendan O'Dea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Source: perl Version: 5.8.4-5.1 Replaces: perl-5.005-base (<< 6), perl-5.6-base (<< 6), perl (<< 5.8.0-9), perl-modules (<< 5.8.4-5), libperl5.8 (<< 5.8.0-20), libscalar-list-utils-perl, libclass-multimethods-perl (<< 1.70-4) Provides: perl5-base, perlapi-5.8.0, perlapi-5.8.1, perlapi-5.8.2, perlapi-5.8.3, perlapi-5.8.4, data-dumper, libscalar-list-utils-perl Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4) Suggests: perl Conflicts: perl-5.004-base (<< 6), perl-5.005-base (<< 6), perl-5.6-base (<< 6), data-dumper, autoconf2.13 (<< 2.13-45), libscalar-list-utils-perl (<< 1:1.13-1), perl-modules (<< 5.8.4-1) Filename: sarge-workarounds/perl-base_5.8.4-5.1_i386.deb Size: 751834 MD5sum: 7efbb33a7b57cf60b8d29340668113d9 Description: The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister A scripting language with delusions of full language-hood, Perl is used in many system scripts and utilities. . This is a stripped down Perl with only essential libraries. To make full use of Perl, you'll want to install the `perl', `perl-modules' and optionally `perl-doc' packages which supplement this one. Package: perl-modules Priority: standard Section: perl Installed-Size: 10317 Maintainer: Brendan O'Dea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: all Source: perl Version: 5.8.4-5.1 Replaces: libpod-parser-perl, libansicolor-perl, libfile-temp-perl, libnet-perl, libattribute-handlers-perl, libcgi-pm-perl, libi18n-langtags-perl, liblocale-maketext-perl, libmath-bigint-perl, libnet-ping-perl, libtest-harness-perl, libtest-simple-perl, liblocale-codes-perl Provides: libpod-parser-perl, libansicolor-perl, libfile-temp-perl, libnet-perl, libattribute-handlers-perl, libcgi-pm-perl, libi18n-langtags-perl, liblocale-maketext-perl, libmath-bigint-perl, libnet-ping-perl, libtest-harness-perl, libtest-simple-perl, liblocale-codes-perl Depends: perl (>= 5.8.4-1) Pre-Depends: perl-base (>= 5.8.4-1) Conflicts: libpod-parser-perl (<< 1.14-1), libansicolor-perl (<< 1.08-1), libfile-temp-perl (<< 0.14-1), libnet-perl (<< 1:1.17-1), libattribute-handlers-perl (<< 0.78-1), libcgi-pm-perl (<< 3.04-1), libi18n-langtags-perl (<< 0.29-1), liblocale-maketext-perl (<< 1.08-1), libmath-bigint-perl (<< 1.70-1), libnet-ping-perl (<< 2.31-1), libtest-harness-perl (<< 2.40-1), libtest-simple-perl (<< 0.47-1), liblocale-codes-perl (<< 2.06.1-1) Filename: sarge-workarounds/perl-modules_5.8.4-5.1_all.deb Size: 2197772 MD5sum: aa2ca3fc2492a86f1aac891baeca0f6f Description: Core Perl modules Architecture independent Perl modules. These modules are part of Perl and required if the `perl' package is installed. [...] ---------------------------------------------------- So my changes leave "apt-get dist-upgrade" only one option to resolve the situation. But I must admit this solution may be a bit dangerous (as always when combining Pre-Depends and Conflicts). -- c u henning ----- End forwarded message ----- -- c u henning -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
