On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 08:15:49PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > On Tuesday 19 Sivan 5771 20:00:29 Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > > Do please check over the pre/post/install scripts involved so this mess > > > does not recur :-) > > > > I don't really know what can be done, the preinst script already abort > > the installation if a non-dpkg owned version of ld.so is found. After > > all why the preinst script should take care about files which have been > > placed there by the user? > > If they need be replaced, it should be handled. The main thing is that a > valid > ld ...so needs be around or else. If there are more than one, probably no > harm > as long as they point to the correct library. Telling the user to get rid of > the "non-dpkg" file, naming it, is dangerous. As soon as it is deleted, the > system is hosed.
That's what I don't understand, which files did you removed exactly? I don't understand how your system could use a non-Debian provided dynamic linker. > Also, packages of different previous major version, i.e. 2.11 upgrading to > 2.13 were not handled correctly. Whether I was legitimately upgrading from > previous stable or copied them (as can be sometimes necessary for recovery), > their existance with the upgrade is catastrophic because somehow, they got > symlinked in and the result we saw. > > The other problem was upgrading from testing to unstable. Since the directory > structure changed and the old files were not removed, a combined testing-sid > system resulted. Not a catastrophe but strange problems with no obvious fix. It's not a problem of upgrade, you told in a previous mail that you copy the 2.11 files to the /lib directory. Even doing so is not a problem (except for ld.so, which is taken into account by the preinst script) given that /lib/i386-linux-gnu has a higher priority. The fact that in addition you export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib caused all your problems. I don't think the preinst script should take care of all these issues. When you defined LD_LIBRARY_PATH you should assume the consequences. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
