On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 06:19:39PM +1100, Mike Lake wrote: > Hi All, > > I have just done an apt-get dist-upgrade of an Intel 486 gateway from stable to >unstable. > I have just a few questions... > > Question 1 > ---------- > dpkg: warning - unable to delete old file `/usr/doc': Directory not empty > > All the doc files in here are symlinks to ../share/doc/ > I am presuming that unstable has decided to have all docs in /usr/share and > nothing in /usr/doc and wanted to remove all those symlinks and the directory > /usr/doc - is that right. In which case I can manually delete them?
May as well keep them around. All that means is that the old package had stuff in /usr/doc whereas the new one doesn't. > Question 2 > ---------- > dpkg: warning - unable to delete old file `/var/log/ksymoops': Directory not empty > This currently contails lots of..... > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32113 Sep 1 23:06 20010901230651.ksyms > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 222 Sep 1 23:06 20010901230651.modules > Seems to be lots of temp files about loaded modules. I have deleted them all > and I will see what ones reappear and when. Don't worry about it. > Question 3 > ---------- > Some time ago I installed logrotate which needed mailx to be able to mail me >messages and this in turn required zmailer. zmailer is a big package for > high volume mail and should not be needed really. As apt-cache show zmailer says.... > "Most users don't need this package -- for most users, sendmail or exim or > smail will suffice." > I have exim installed. > I tried to delete it: > > loubens:/home/admin# apt-get remove zmailer-ssl > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following packages will be REMOVED: > logrotate mailx tripwire zmailer-ssl > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 15.5MB will be freed. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n > Abort. > > The strange thing is that my Debian Alpha has logrotate and mailx but did not need >zmailer. > The 486 Intel does. > Whats the dependencies for other peoples systems out there? dpkg --purge --force-depends zmailer-ssl && apt-get install postfix (or exim, or whatever). > Question 4 > ---------- > > I have in my sources.lust :-) > deb http://security.debian.org unstable/updates main contrib non-free > > I had changed the stable to unstable. I get however... Don't. unstable doesn't need a security branch, as all updates get installed in there anyway; just remove that line. :) d -- Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <Addi> It would be kind of cool to have a bunch of satelittes that were on the same trajectory as the earth around the sun, but going the other way. <pudge> so twice a year we all have to duck? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
