Re: version 0.8 of libc5 to libc6 auto-upgrade script

1998-01-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jan 20, 1998 at 10:05:03PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > worse than ever now :-). there are over 1700 packages in hamm (counting > main, contrib, non-free, and non-US)...several hundred more than in bo. Just FYI, there are only 460 odd in main in buzz! That's progress ... Hamish -- Ha

Re: version 0.8 of libc5 to libc6 auto-upgrade script

1998-01-20 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: > Hi, Craig! > > I updated libc5 to libc6 on 2 computers (Debian 1.3 was installed in > Nov-97 and Feb-97) using your script. Worked fine for me. glad to hear it. > Updating the rest of the packages with dselect is still quite painful. worse t

Re: version 0.8 of libc5 to libc6 auto-upgrade script

1998-01-19 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Craig! I updated libc5 to libc6 on 2 computers (Debian 1.3 was installed in Nov-97 and Feb-97) using your script. Worked fine for me. Updating the rest of the packages with dselect is still quite painful. Thank you, Sasha. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubsc

version 0.8 of libc5 to libc6 auto-upgrade script

1998-01-11 Thread Craig Sanders
I just ran this script on an old system (somewhere between rex and bo) with lots of -dev packages installed. found and fixed two bugs. - libc6 conflicts with libpthread0 - i made a typo... PKGS_GPP instead of PKGS_LIBGPP. - some old version of perl's postrm didn't delete a .packlist

Re: libc5 to libc6 auto-upgrade script

1998-01-10 Thread Tim Sailer
Igor Grobman wrote: > > > This version should be close to good enough. The major change since the last > one that was posted is the ability to upgrade from files in the current dir > instead of a local mirror requirement. llug.sep.bnl.gov is a public nfs mount for debian. You can point the s

Re: libc5 to libc6 auto-upgrade script

1998-01-09 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Lindsay Allen wrote: > I hope this is the final version for a while. The script works here on a > freshly installed bo. > > Watch out for line folding. > > # sanity check that we are in the right place > [ -f base/libc6_* ] || exit 9 9 is already used for perl_base failure.

Re: libc5 to libc6 auto-upgrade script

1998-01-09 Thread Lindsay Allen
I hope this is the final version for a while. The script works here on a freshly installed bo. Watch out for line folding. --- cut here --- #! /bin/sh # upgrade a libc5 (bo) machine to libc6 (hamm). # based on Scott Ellis' excellent "Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO" # document at http://www