[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've just completed an upgrade to Debian 1.2, and would like to > relate some details of the experience in the hopes that it might > help others who get stuck as I did. I also have some suggestions > for the maintainers at the end of this message. But before I get > to any of that, I want to say "thanks".
I just did the same last night and I'd have to say ditto! The upgrade went pretty well and "thanks"! > [...] > > While upgrading, a number of packages (about 10 of the over 100) > failed to install. The result of this was that after the first > round of attempted installations of the new/updated packages, the > ftp access method for dselect no longer worked. I had similar problems, but dpkg-ftp wasnt working properly. For me it was just a matter of re-running the configure process (dpkg --configure --pending) until things started working again. > I really didn't want to restore from backup, and start over again, > so I took a shot at using the "mounted" access method to access > the package files that the "ftp" method had just downloaded. A > little "find"-ing found the .deb files in > > /var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/debian/Debian-1.2/binary-i386/..., You could have just used dpkg directly with dpkg --install *.deb :) > [...] > The following is some suggestions for the Debian maintainers. > > In the above I would have liked to be more specific about what failed > and how, but I did not keep a written log, and apparently dselect didn't > either. I'd like to suggest that dselect keep a transcript of what > it attempts to do and whatever messages that attempt produces. > > I noted that many packages printed warning messages and advice as > they were installed or configured. This works fine when your just > upgrading a single package, but when your upgrading 100 or so packages, > these messages just scroll off the screen never to be seen again. The > aforementioned transcript would help here too, but I'd rather see such > advice and recommendations put into a readme.debian file in a > /use/doc/packageX/.... file so it can be reread later easily. What would really be nice is a transcript log that could be played back through dselect to reproduce the same results. OS/2 had a feature similar to that which would allow you to install one machine and then reproduce the same system on other machines by using the transcript log. -- Bernard Leach Australian Business Access Pty Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.aba.net.au/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
