in-line :- On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 14:17, A Mennucc <deb...@tonelli.sns.it> wrote: > Dear shirish
Dear A Mennucc, > I apologize; I should have written what follows some time ago. > > Preface: if you run the command 'debdelta-upgrade' with the '-d' option > then, if any delta fails, the command will create some temporary files, > and print something like this > > !!Faulty delta. Please send by email to mennu...@debian.org the following > files: > !! /.../xul-ext-https-everywhere_1.1-1_1.2-1_al...deb > !! /tmp/xul-ext-https-everywhere_1.1-1_all.deb > !! /tmp/debdeltaE4lapBU ah guess this happened recently or something because I don't remember reading anything in the documentation about log files being generated. Of course, this is good, better. > if you post a bug report, you should attach to your bug report those files. sure, will keep in mind. <snipped> > If a delta fails, then debdelta-upgrade will download the corresponding .deb > (see the option '--deb-policy' in the man page for more details). > > So if you issue 'debdelta-upgrade -d' after the failure , nothing will happen. > > There are three ways out of this: > 1) always use the '-d' option > 2) always use the option '--deb-policy s,b' so that debdelta-upgrade will > not download the deb in case of failure; if any fails, > use 'debdelta-upgrade -d' > 3) as a last resort, if you did not do the above, and you wish to > send a bugreport, please manually delete the downloaded deb, e.g. > # rm /var/cache/apt/archives/that-deb-that-failed_0.0-0_amd64.deb > and run 'debdelta-upgrade -d' : it will retry and , upon failure, > generate the log files that you may send me. > >> The debdelta-upgrade is an alias with 'debdelta-upgrade -d' so by >> default it retries. > > You may have got the alias wrong. The above message is printed when the '-d' > option is not present. Somehow your alias is not working OK. > Try typing 'alias' in the shell and see if it is there (I guess no). correct, I think for some reason I had commented it, don't remember what the issue might have been, sorry. I was under the impression that I was still using it. > a. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
