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Re: Linux 8.3.31 -> 8.4.4 layered upgrade
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Tue Jun 20 03:31:34 2000
To: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Date: 20 Jun 2000 03:31:29 -0400
In-Reply-To: "Christopher D. Beland"'s message of "Tue, 20 Jun 2000 02:31:28 -0400"
Message-ID: <u1hvgz44xm6.fsf@oliver.mit.edu>
"Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU> writes:
> So I upgraded from No-Whammies RHA 8.3.31 to 8.4.4 by installing all
> of the RPM upgrades from the dev cell. I came across a small number
> of minor whammies.
>
> file /bin/vi from install of athena-nvi-8.4-2 conflicts with file
> from package vim-minimal-5.6-11
>
> vim-minimal is on the 8.4.4 release list in the control subdir. That
> file, BTW, has some stray numbers like " 1" and " 5" that you have to
> remove before feeding the list to rpm. I don't know if these are
> intentional.
Hrm. We haven't seen this in upgrades. Dunno.
The "stray numbers" are in fact epoch indications, and you do have to
strip them before feeding the file to rpm.
> I also had to manually remove athena-tex athena-xdm because these
> packages have apparently been split and/or renamed, and there were
> lots of install conflicts.
This is odd; if you updated all the packages in a single invocation
then you shouldn't see such problems. Though without knowing more
exactly what you did, I can't say.
> /etc/athena/rc.conf is empty of variables...that seemed odd.
> athena-voldump gave "rmdir of / failed: No such file or directory"
The former is odd. Again, the exact history of your athena-ws and
athena-base packages are important here. The latter message is
harmless and can be ignored.
>
> athena-krb5 gave:
>
> Not updating conf.getty to point at krb5. Current value:
> LOGIN=/usr/athena/etc/login.krb5
That's fine.
