Re: nasty slink - potato upgrade problem

2000-03-18 Thread Joel Klecker
At 10:57 +1100 2000-03-12, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Also, libc6 tries to restart some NSS-using services, but never seems to succeed in restarting sshd. I end up with it refusing connections, although sshd still appears to be running (the original process and not a new one). I guess that means that

Re: nasty slink - potato upgrade problem

2000-03-13 Thread Filip Van Raemdonck
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 08:10:07PM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 08:32:07PM -0400, Nicolás Lichtmaier was heard to say: Trouble ahead? Please run apt-get install apt before doing the dist-upgrade. Old apt don't manage well the perl transition. This will be

Re: nasty slink - potato upgrade problem

2000-03-12 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Trouble ahead? Please run apt-get install apt before doing the dist-upgrade. Old apt don't manage well the perl transition. This will be documented in the Release Notes. Why don't we make the new perls conflict the old apt?

Re: nasty slink - potato upgrade problem

2000-03-12 Thread Eric Weigel
And/or make the new Perl pre-depend on the new apt, so the apt update will happen before anything else? On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: Trouble ahead? Please run apt-get install apt before doing the dist-upgrade. Old apt don't manage well the perl transition. This will be

Re: nasty slink - potato upgrade problem

2000-03-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 08:32:07PM -0400, Nicolás Lichtmaier was heard to say: Trouble ahead? Please run apt-get install apt before doing the dist-upgrade. Old apt don't manage well the perl transition. This will be documented in the Release Notes. Why don't we make the new perls

Re: nasty slink - potato upgrade problem

2000-03-12 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, [iso-8859-1] Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: Trouble ahead? Please run apt-get install apt before doing the dist-upgrade. Old apt don't manage well the perl transition. This will be documented in the Release Notes. Why don't we make the new perls conflict the old apt?

Re: nasty slink - potato upgrade problem

2000-03-12 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Trouble ahead? Please run apt-get install apt before doing the dist-upgrade. Old apt don't manage well the perl transition. This will be documented in the Release Notes. Why don't we make the new perls conflict the old apt? Augh, no don't do that! Upgrading APT will have

nasty slink - potato upgrade problem

2000-03-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I just considered upgrading a slink server here to potato. I apt-get updated and then ran apt-get dist-upgrade. exim is held back, because libopenldap1 is uninstallable, because libopenldap-runtime is uninstallable, because debconf is uninstallable, because perl-5.004* is to be installed rather

Re: nasty slink - potato upgrade problem

2000-03-11 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 07:06:24PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt écrivait: Trouble ahead? Please run apt-get install apt before doing the dist-upgrade. Old apt don't manage well the perl transition. This will be documented in the Release Notes. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -=-

Re: nasty slink - potato upgrade problem

2000-03-11 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 04:37:11PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog was heard to say: Le Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 07:06:24PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt écrivait: Trouble ahead? Please run apt-get install apt before doing the dist-upgrade. Old apt don't manage well the perl transition. This will be documented

Re: nasty slink - potato upgrade problem

2000-03-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 04:37:11PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Le Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 07:06:24PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt écrivait: Trouble ahead? Please run apt-get install apt before doing the dist-upgrade. Old apt don't manage well the perl transition. This will be documented in the

Re: slink - potato

1999-10-04 Thread Raul Miller
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 09:57:12AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: As far as I know, leaving inetd accepting connections would, worst case, fail -- which is no different from having the service disabled. In other words, I don't see that disabling the daemon solves anything useful. On Mon, Oct

Re: slink - potato

1999-10-04 Thread Herbert Xu
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 07:06:10PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 08:15:54AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: I think the worst case would be a telnetd linked with a broken shlib (or in the case of telnetd, perhaps a missing or broken /usr/lib/telnetd/login) that gives a

Re: slink - potato

1999-10-04 Thread Raul Miller
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 08:15:54AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: I think the worst case would be a telnetd linked with a broken shlib (or in the case of telnetd, perhaps a missing or broken /usr/lib/telnetd/login) that gives a security hole. If you wish to minimise downtime, the proper way

Re: slink - potato

1999-10-04 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Herbert Xu wrote: On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 07:06:10PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 08:15:54AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: I think the worst case would be a telnetd linked with a broken shlib (or in the case of telnetd, perhaps a missing or broken

Re: slink - potato

1999-10-04 Thread Yves Arrouye
As for the discussion, APT actually has such a feature cleverly undocumented and unmentioned - if you flag a package as Impotant: then its downtime is minizimized by the ordering code. Speaking of ordering, there's some bad catch 22 happening when you deinstall a bunch of packages at the same

Re: slink - potato

1999-10-04 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Yves Arrouye wrote: As for the discussion, APT actually has such a feature cleverly undocumented and unmentioned - if you flag a package as Impotant: then its downtime is minizimized by the ordering code. packages that conflict with them. An example is moving from the

Re: slink - potato

1999-10-04 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Herbert Xu wrote: If anyone has seen an existing connection die, please report that as a bug. what against? internet ?? The issue is more about connectivity stability. Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: slink - potato

1999-10-04 Thread Herbert Xu
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 09:36:36PM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote: On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Herbert Xu wrote: If anyone has seen an existing connection die, please report that as a bug. what against? internet ?? My message was about telnetd getting killed, so of course it would be against

Re: slink - potato

1999-10-04 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
packages that conflict with them. An example is moving from the 1.1.2 KDE packages to the 2.0 ones, eg. from kdebase to kdebase-cvs etc. USing dselect and APT, what happens is that somehow installation of the new packages is tried first, and fails, and then deinstallation does not

Re: slink - potato

1999-10-03 Thread Raul Miller
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 08:56:23AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: The idea is that when you upgrade the package like telnetd, there may be new shlib dependencies, etc. which means that you should stop spawning new daemons until it is configured. Of course, this may not happen for every release, but

Re: slink - potato

1999-10-03 Thread Herbert Xu
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 09:57:12AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: As far as I know, leaving inetd accepting connections would, worst case, fail -- which is no different from having the service disabled. In other words, I don't see that disabling the daemon solves anything useful. I think the

Re: slink - potato

1999-10-02 Thread Herbert Xu
John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something I have noticed several times. If you are doing a remote upgrade (probably a crazy idea), the telnet daemon (maybe inetd or something) becomes unavailble for quite some time. Maybe it is between the time that netbase is unpacked and when it

Re: slink - potato

1999-10-02 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 11:43:17AM -0700, John Lapeyre wrote: Something I have noticed several times. If you are doing a remote upgrade (probably a crazy idea), the telnet daemon (maybe inetd or something) becomes unavailble for quite some time. Maybe it is between the time that netbase is

Re: slink - potato

1999-10-02 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 11:43:17AM -0700, John Lapeyre wrote: Something I have noticed several times. If you are doing a remote upgrade (probably a crazy idea), the telnet daemon (maybe inetd or something) becomes unavailble for quite some time. netbase restarts inetd in it's postinst,

Re: slink - potato

1999-10-02 Thread Herbert Xu
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 10:26:52PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Ah. Your problem is probably telnetd's prerm: ] if command -v update-inetd /dev/null 21; then ]update-inetd --disable telnet ] fi It might be better to bracket this with an `if [ $1 != upgrade ]', or similar.

Re: slink - potato

1999-10-02 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 10:35:10PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: No, during the upgrade, inetd should not try to start new copies of telnetd because it may not be there or it may not be executable (e.g., shlibs that it depends on may be missing). Thus it must be disabled as is done with all

Re: slink - potato

1999-10-02 Thread Herbert Xu
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: Hmmm. I can't actually find any mention of this in policy. In fact, discussion of what should be done when in prerm and postrm seems pretty bare, period. OK, so it's not actually in the policy. What sequence of events is actually going to cause

slink - potato

1999-10-01 Thread andreas pålsson
Hello. I'm about to make an update of a base Slink-system to the unstable Potato. Is there anything I should think of or preperations to be made before updating? Why I do this is because I want to become a Debian-developer, and any hints and tips are much appreciated. Sincerely...

Re: slink - potato

1999-10-01 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
yea...I just did an update today and something decided to remove /bin/sh during the upgrade...and didn't put it back before it was needed... so if something hoses for you just recreate it by linking it to like bash... Ivan On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 02:24:45PM +0200, andreas pålsson wrote: Hello.

Re: slink - potato

1999-10-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
I did an upgrade of one of my systems yesterday with little incident (apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade). I had to rerun the upgrade part several times because the order of installation was a bit messed up (bind). Bob On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 02:24:45PM +0200, andreas pålsson wrote:

Re: slink - potato

1999-10-01 Thread John Lapeyre
Something I have noticed several times. If you are doing a remote upgrade (probably a crazy idea), the telnet daemon (maybe inetd or something) becomes unavailble for quite some time. Maybe it is between the time that netbase is unpacked and when it is configured. There are usually problems

Re: slink - potato

1999-10-01 Thread David Bristel
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