Hi,
It's not my script - that honor belongs to Craig Sanders
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, who saw the need and developed it. I made some
minor contributions, and wrote the README.
The necessity of running dselect several times is a dpkg/dselect
issue that is well known, and is mentioned in install.txt (which comes
with the boot floppies) and other documents. I agree that it would be
useful to repeat this advice in the script's closing message and in
the README. If these are revised again before release, I will try to
include that information.
The predepends problems are a result of the way dpkg/dselect
handle installation. The new dpkg interface apt (formerly deity) uses
much more sophisticated ordering algorithms, and eliminates or
minimizes such problems. autoup.sh is intended to perform the
critical upgrades necessary to make it safe to used dpkg/dselect for
the balance of the installation. Modifying it to eliminate predepends
problems later would be extending its functionality beyond the
purposes for which it was intended.
Bob
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Zack Weinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Having just upgraded from bo to hamm using your script, I'd like to
> make a couple of suggestions:
>
> - The message at the end, "...now run dselect to upgrade everything
> else...", should warn the user that they may have to run the
> install command from dselect several times in order to get
> everything installed (due to predependencies and conflicts) and if
> they get errors, to not panic but simply keep the packages around
> and try [I]nstall again.
>
> - Several packages have predependencies on dpkg-perl (notably
> tetex-*). This is a major contributor to the above problem.
> Perhaps autoup should install dpkg-perl?
>
> zw
>
>
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