Hi Torsten, On Mon, 9 May 2005, Torsten Landschoff wrote:
>> including directory to dump databases. The text said the default is >> /var/backups/slapd-VERSION. Reading that, I simply pushed enter. After >> that, the preinst script have failed, rendering slapd unconfigured. >> Meanwhile, apt has upgraded my libldap2 package. > >Which debconf frontend to you use? I hit the same problem with the >readline frontend which does not seem to use the default value if you I use the readline frontend, too. >Hint: You could also use debconf-communicate for stuff like that. I will look at it, I didn't hear about this cmd so far... :) >apt does not use packages in the cache directory unless they are still >in the packages list for that package source. IOW: Because 2.1.23-1 is >no longer in the Debian archive apt-get just forgets that they are still >available somewhere in your cache. But you can use dpkg to install them. Understood. Anyway, I hope nobody will make up some day with the idea that some process should delete the cache dir regularly, as with debian it is nearly impossible to get a (even not-so-far) old binary package if you don't have it in your cache. > >> In the end, I successfully downgraded with dpkg. I still sucked with >> that the dumpdir already existed, and preinst didn't like it, but it was >> a piece of cake after these all. > >Erm, you mean, that you upgraded to 2.2.23 again afterwards? Oh, yes, sorry, that logical step was dropped you of the list. > >> The most screamy was when it seemed that I cannot downgrade, and I >> system was useless. Do somebody have a tip what could cause that? > >My understanding of dpkg and apt-get says that at the time the preinst >is run the old packages should still be installed. To get the broken >state you describe, the system must have continued the installation >despite the error in the slapd preinst. Which is in fact not expected to >ever happen. I just use debian, and don't understand package handling deeply, but I experienced that after a (preinst) install script fails, many packages still get installed and configured. I do not know the algorithm of which packages are allowed to be installed, but it seems that libldap2 was installed, and it made my old ldap package useless... >I'll safeguard against an empty value for the dump dir... It is a good idea. Thanks for the fast reply, I hope I could help: Ferenc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
