[SLUG] Re: dist-upgrade potato -> woody

[Michael Lake <mikel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff Waugh wrote:
> Yes. :) I was just suggesting this (or getting a binary from a known good
> machine) in reply to your other email.
> When woody becomes stable, upgrades from potato should work seamlessly. :)

Great, look forward to it. I wont yet try to dist-upgrade my Alpha ! 
I subscribe to the debian-alpha list and may have probs with X.

Now Steven suggested to upgrade perl to 5.6 I did apt-get install perl 5.6
and .....
Selecting previously deselected package perl.
Unpacking perl (from .../archives/perl_5.6.1-5_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package perl-5.6.
Unpacking perl-5.6 (from .../archives/perl-5.6_6.2_all.deb) ...
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 3120 package `ppp':
 EOF during value of field `Description' (missing final newline)
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

Perl seens to work though...
admin@loubens:~$ perl --version
This is perl, v5.6.1 built for i386-linux

But I do get this error when apt-get install iptables

Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main iptables 1.2.2-2 [175kB]
Fetched 175kB in 1m38s (1771B/s)                                                   
        (in cleanup) Can't call method "DESTROY" on an undefined value at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Question.pm line 151 during global
destruction.
Selecting previously deselected package iptables.

Seems like a Perl error. Anyone seen that?

Also when packages are held back from an update or dist-upgrade does one 
just run again? What happens if you run apt-get dist-upgrade a second time?


Mike
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Michael Lake
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