Upgrade/Update Manager problem -- well I have the problem..........

[Martin Owens]

Couldn't they just have a way to put clean up scripts in an update to
fix the problem?

On 24/10/2007, Aaron Haviland <orion at parsed.net> wrote:
> Brian Fallik wrote, on Oct 24, 2007 at 17:58 EDT:
> > Have you seen this?
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/102511
>
> > On 10/24/07, George E Noon <george.noon at comcast.net> wrote:
> > > I, frankly do not understand why the error -- if you go to
> > > http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty-security/main/binary-i386/ and look, right there as the first item under the parent directory is
> > > Packages.bz2 --- so I really do not understand why there is some problem
> > > fetching the needed package(s)....
> > > Perhaps someone with more understanding could explain and perhaps
> > > contribute to a fix for this problem; as i sure there must be some
> > > already working on the problem (I certainly hope)...
>
> As far as I can tell, apt's behaviour with this *is* fixed in Gutsy, as
> it only warns about having a duplicate sources.list entry, but doesn't
> fail on it. Debian etch's version of apt does have the bug.
>
> According to apt's changelog, it was fixed in 0.7.1, which is
> post-feisty, and pre-gutsy.
>
> As for what is introducing the duplicate lines, I've no idea, but if you
> can upgrade apt, then everything else should fall in line.
>
> Personally, I always prefer to upgrade apt, dpkg, and libc6 first, and
> then let the rest go in the next run, when doing a large upgrade like
> this.
>
> # apt-get install apt dpkg libc6
>
> It will pull in a few other things, but this will get the core stuff up.
>
> I find it's always important to get the latest version of apt and dpkg
> installed before trying to make it deal with new dependancy fields added
> into the newer distribution, as an older apt might have a bug regarding
> a conflict, or not understand how to deal with something. Or a duplicate
> line in the sources.list :)
>
> Anyway, the issue now is that even if they fix the bug, people who are
> experiencing it will still have to either edit their sources.list to
> remove the duplicates, or upgrade apt manually.
>
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> Aaron Haviland
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