On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, J.A. Bezemer wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > Le Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 10:42:48AM +0200, Sven Hartrumpf écrivait: > > > I just want to report a successful upgrade > > > from slink to potato-test-cycle-2 (i386) following the instructions > > > in bin1::upgrade/release-notes.en.txt and using bin CDs 1, 2 and 3. > > > > > > Removing egcc ... > > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/egcc.prerm: /usr/sbin/update-alternatives: No such > > > file or directory > > > dpkg: error processing egcc (--remove): > > > subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 > > [...] > > > The reason for this error was: > > > /usr/sbin/update-alternatives contained > > > #! /usr/local/bin/perl > > > but on my slink system, there was no /usr/local/bin/perl, just > > > /usr/bin/perl. > > > > Did you install the static dpkg stuff ? Where did you get it from ? > > > > We already had such a problem in the first version of static dpkg that we > > provided on Anne's page, but I recompiled it and it should be ok now ... > > unless the bad one has been installed... > > > > Anne, can you check if the good dpkg package has been installed by > > Richard in the upgrade-i386 directory ? > > The dpkg package in upgrade(-i386)/ is okay everywhere I can check, which > includes the Debian FTP archive and the test-cycle-2 Non-US i386 Binary-1 CD. > However, at the moment I can _not_ check the US-exportable CDs. > > The "wrong" version has (AFAIK) never been in the Debian FTP archive; it has > been on my private site only for a few days. > > Sven: Where exactly did you get your CD from?
For those listening on the lists (and for the list archives): Sven mailed me personally that: 1) he got the official CDs allright, but 2) he used the "wrong" dpkg version which he had downloaded from my site a "long" time ago. Which means there's nothing to worry about. (Except semi-clueless users, but we're used to that already ;-) Regards, Anne Bezemer
