Hi, so this upgrade breakage hit unstable in March, and testing in April, and it isn't on anybody's radar yet?!
Holger Levsen <hol...@layer-acht.org> (2014-07-30): > reassign 756464 freebsd-net-tools > thanks > > Hi Dan, > > thanks for your bug report, reassigning accordingly. > > > cheers, > Holger > > On Mittwoch, 30. Juli 2014, Dan Greene wrote: > > Package: upgrade-reports > > Severity: critical > > Justification: breaks the whole system > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > When dist-upgrading a system to jessie, or running dist-upgrade on a > > freshly installed system (using the alpha 1 release of the installer), > > apt-get removes the kernel. This results in there being no kernel > > installed, and you can't exactly boot the system without a kernel, hence > > the severity. > > > > Using aptitude reveals that freebsd-net-tools Breaks: kfreebsd-image-9 > > > > To reproduce: > > Install Debian GNU/kFreeBSD jessie from tha alpha 1 netinstall cd. > > Run apt-get dist-upgrade > > Reboot > > > > and you will be stuck with a grub prompt. > > > > In case it matters, this bug was found running under a virtual machine > > (KVM). I've just reproduced this, using debian-7.6.0-kfreebsd-i386-netinst.iso in kvm with a 2GB virtual disc. After a (successful) default install, I've only done s/wheezy/jessie/ in /etc/apt/sources.list, then apt-get update, and finally apt-get dist-upgrade. Kernel 9 goes away, kernel 10 isn't installed. Now stuck at grub prompt. And since there's no rescue mode on kfreebsd-*… I'm also unimpressed by the change that led to this, which has been documented in changelog this way: + * Consistently use the new SIOCAIFADDR ABI in ifconfig. (Closes: #736238) which doesn't make it trivial to infer “kfreebsd-image-8, kfreebsd-image-9 were added to Breaks” (among some other packages) when looking for this information. (I had to use debcheckout then svn blame to get to this.) Mraw, KiBi.
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