Package: libc6 Version: 2.13-24 Severity: minor I was trying to upgrade a Very Old installation, and the preinst failed with
> Checking for services that may need to be restarted... > Checking init scripts... > readlink: invalid option -- e > Try `readlink --help' for more information. > dpkg: error processing libc6_2.13-24_i386.deb (--install): > subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 coreutils 5.2.1-2 doesn't support the -e or -m flags, only -f. I know it's a pretty annoying corner case, but libc is kind of *important* and it would be nice if it worked even in extreme cases like this. I can't install a current coreutils until I get libc upgraded, and it's being a bit of a pain. (It's being very exciting because apt-get segfaults trying to read a current Packages file, so I'm doing lots of manual downloading and "dpkg -i" to get apt upgraded.) I got around it by patching /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst before the preinst was run, and have now hit the kernel version 2.6.26 check. The exceitement continues... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
