Re: dpkg upgrade: no query to proceed with upgrade

2010-12-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, My Sid upgraded dpkg from 1.15.8.6->1.15.8.7 and now apt-get dist-upgrade no longer asks if I want to proceed, but starts the upgrade immediately. Anybody else notice this, or is it just me? One day later: everything normal: /Tue Dec 28-08:17:13# apt-get dist-u

Re: dpkg upgrade: no query to proceed with upgrade

2010-12-28 Thread Brian
On Mon 27 Dec 2010 at 10:29:02 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > My Sid upgraded dpkg from 1.15.8.6->1.15.8.7 and now apt-get > dist-upgrade no longer asks if I want to proceed, but starts the upgrade > immediately. > > Anybody else notice this, or is it just me? apt, dpkg versions as B

Re: dpkg upgrade: no query to proceed with upgrade

2010-12-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > My Sid upgraded dpkg from 1.15.8.6->1.15.8.7 and now apt-get > dist-upgrade no longer asks if I want to proceed, but starts the > upgrade immediately. > > Anybody else notice this, or is it just me? I have: ii apt0.8.10 Advanced front-end for dpkg

Re: dpkg upgrade error

2001-12-29 Thread Simon Law
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 10:25:39AM -0700, Daniel Farnsworth Teichert wrote: > > When I looked at the preinst script, it seemed to be choking because > > /usr/share/doc/libdb2-util wasn't a soft link. I think it may not > > have even existed. I created a t

Re: dpkg upgrade error

2001-12-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 10:25:39AM -0700, Daniel Farnsworth Teichert wrote: > When I looked at the preinst script, it seemed to be choking because > /usr/share/doc/libdb2-util wasn't a soft link. I think it may not > have even existed. I created a temporary directory, made > /usr/share/doc/libdb2-u

Re: dpkg upgrade error

2001-12-27 Thread David Gardi
Daniel Farnsworth Teichert wrote: >When I looked at the preinst script, it seemed to be choking because >/usr/share/doc/libdb2-util wasn't a soft link. I think it may not >have even existed. I created a temporary directory, made >/usr/share/doc/libdb2-util a soft-link to it, tried it again, and >

Re: dpkg upgrade error

2001-12-27 Thread Daniel Farnsworth Teichert
When I looked at the preinst script, it seemed to be choking because /usr/share/doc/libdb2-util wasn't a soft link. I think it may not have even existed. I created a temporary directory, made /usr/share/doc/libdb2-util a soft-link to it, tried it again, and everything went fine. It deleted the soft

Re: dpkg upgrade error

2001-12-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 01:03:06AM +0100, David Gardi wrote: > Preparing to replace libdb2-util 2:2.7.7.0-2 (using > .../libdb2-util_2%3a2.7.7.0-3_i386.deb) ... > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/libdb2-util_2%3a2.7.7.0-3_i386.deb (--unpack): > subprocess pre-installation script

Re: dpkg upgrade

2001-05-07 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: dpkg upgrade Date: Mon, May 07, 2001 at 10:58:35AM +0600 In reply to:V.Suresh Quoting V.Suresh([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I often get lots of segfaults when dpkg works - particularly > when i use apt-get, and apt-get inturn calls dpkg, then dpkg > segfaults. Though a reboo