Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 05:10:43PM -0700, NFN Smith wrote:
Thus, since the upgrade we wanted wasn't essential, we decided to not
bother with it then. However, we're now to the point where we need to
get the machine upgraded to lenny, so we need to figure out a way aro
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 05:10:43PM -0700, NFN Smith wrote:
> As long as I don't reboot the server, backing out of the problem is
> doable -- all I have to do is revert to the previous libc6, using:
>
> aptitude -t oldstable install libc6
>
> and things are back to where they were.
That's un
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:42:54 -0700, NFN Smith wrote:
[...]
>
> Following this downgrade, libc6 (and related dependencies) are all still
> at etch versions.
>
>
This from Chapter 4 of the Lenny release notes may be of interest to you,
especially the part at the bottom since you are using Aptitude
On 2009-03-16 17:42 +0100, NFN Smith wrote:
> I have a server that is running etch, and before upgrading to lenny,
> there's a a couple of packages with a lot of local configuration work in
> them that I want to upgrade individually to lenny versions first, so
> that I don't have the problem of ha
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
OK, its the best analogy I could come up with. I don't know if fixing
this is possible, hopefully someone can help you. I hope you had good
backups (if not, do them now if you can).
Turns out that it's not necessarily a problem.
As long as I don't reboot the serve
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:32:38PM -0700, NFN Smith wrote:
> I have a server that is running etch, and before upgrading to lenny,
> there's a a couple of packages with a lot of local configuration work in
> them that I want to upgrade individually to lenny versions first, so
> that I don't have
I have a server that is running etch, and before upgrading to lenny,
there's a a couple of packages with a lot of local configuration work in
them that I want to upgrade individually to lenny versions first, so
that I don't have the problem of having to adjust for lenny-specific
changes to pack
On Monday 16 March 2009 13:06:59 Mike Bird wrote:
> With tricky upgrades I usually remove all -dev packages first
> and reinstall them after.
That seems to make things work better here, as well. I also tend to remove
-dbg packages, too.
--
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =.
b.
On Mon March 16 2009 09:42:54 NFN Smith wrote:
> Is there a way of getting around this one (perhaps booting from a CD and
> using the rescue shell)? Or is it going to be faster/easier to simply
> back up the machine and rebuild it?
With tricky upgrades I usually remove all -dev packages first
and
I have a server that is running etch, and before upgrading to lenny,
there's a a couple of packages with a lot of local configuration work in
them that I want to upgrade individually to lenny versions first, so
that I don't have the problem of having to adjust for lenny-specific
changes to package
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