Ccing the apt-rpm list On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 11:10:29AM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: > On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Sturla Holm Hansen wrote: > > > Hi, just had a wonderful experience with apt-get while running a > > dist-upgrade.... > > It crashed after installing a couple of hundred packages, leaving my > > system with dual installs of those packages. > > Urgh.. that sounds seriously ugly: if you end up with dual installs of > packages it basically means that rpm post% failed for each of those. While > an occasional %post failures do happen due to bad scriptlets and such it's > not a healthy sign if hundreds of packages are failing that way. I have seen that, too. For example if there is a file conflict between two packages, it resultes in the apt operation to abort after finishing the "Preparing... " stage leaving *all* packages doubled (with an E: Error while running transaction). Maybe that has to do with the new rpmlib semantics used? This is apt 0.5.15cnc5 on rpm 4.2.1. -- Axel Thimm physik fu-berlin de
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