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Re: dpkg-ftp vs. pre-depends (was Re: Composite list of reported problems with 1.2)

Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@calder.med.miami.edu> writes:

> 
> 
> Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> writes:
> > 2. Dselect fails to satisfy pre-depends for perl (libdl1)  
> > 	Installing ldso by hand solves the problem.
> > 10. gpm preinstall can't remove old gpm
> > 	No fix reported
> > 11. xbase can't remove xdm and xfs
> > 	No fix reported
> 
> These three may be the result of something I've finally
> confirmed---when upgrading via dpkg-ftp, pre-depends lines are not
> correctly operated upon, meaning that perl (which start-stop-daemon
> depends on, which #11 uses) can be left non-functional (as in #2),
> etc.
> 
> I haven't had time to dig into dpkg-ftp to see what's going on, as I
> only just identified the problem for certain yesterday.

This is true.  dpkg-ftp dosn't include code to install pre-depends
files first - however it shouldn't cause these types of problems -
dpkg should refuse to even unpack a file if its pre-depends cannot be
satisfied.  Current work around for dpkg-ftp is simply to re-run the
install phase.

[ Aside: there should really be a script that gets this right - ie
something like dpkg-install <path> ].

Andy.


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