[3539] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: update failure from fresh install
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Mon Sep 3 10:46:20 2001
To: root <root@wolverine.mit.edu>, sly@MIT.EDU, jweiss@MIT.EDU
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 03 Sep 2001 10:46:15 -0400
In-Reply-To: root's message of "Mon, 03 Sep 2001 04:48:14 -0400"
Message-ID: <sjmg0a4s56w.fsf@rcn.ihtfp.org>
Indeed, you should first:
update_ws
and THEN
update_ws 9.0
You should NOT update directly to 9.0 from the SIPB install.
-derek
root <root@wolverine.mit.edu> writes:
> I did a clean install from a newly created install
> floppy (add linux; linux-install-floppy). I then attempted
> to run update_ws 9.0 and had it fail with the following
> error:
>
> Beginning update from 8.4.0 to 9.0.14 at Mon Sep 3 04:36:33 EDT 2001.
> Freshening rpmupdate: Preparing packages for installation...
> athena-rpmupdate-8.4.staging-4
> Update would break dependencies:
> yp-tools is needed by ypbind-1.7-0.6.x
> *** The update has failed ***
> Please contact Athena Cluster Services at x3-1410. -Athena Operations
>
> I didn't realize yp-bind and yp-tools were installed by athena
> and given that they're in the 8.4.25 control list, I'm not sure
> why the athena updates also don't fail. Perhaps the update script
> depends on the full path being in release-rpms and deals that way, I don't
> know, and I'm really too tired to look right now. However, if we're
> not going to have a 9.0 installer out really really soon (I submit it's
> already too late) -- we should figure out why this breaks and fix
> it as quickly as possible.
>
> --Angie
>
>
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Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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