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Bad idea of the day: upgrading to Lenny with aptitude

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I like aptitude. Okay, I just understand 10% of its features and I can’t live without apt-get (e.g. apt-get source) or apt-cache (e.g. apt-cache search) but for resolving broken dependencies it’s heaven-sent. It just seems like upgrading to Lenny using aptitude (I just learned about “U” to toggle an update - I’ve always used apt-get for that purpose) is a bad idea at this moment. Thanks to Daniel et al for this great piece of software anyway. Just if you upgrade to Lenny I’d recommend apt-get for the moment.

It’s now four hours later and I managed to forcefully install slapd’s dependencies, recover the Samba LDAP schemas and get over all kinds of weird error messages. Bacula failed to upgrade the database (I swear it had worked before with dbconfig-common) so all I had was my emergency afbackup. Not to mention that I had to work on the server console because due to lack of LDAP I couldn’t fix that from my laptop. Do I need to mention that my TFT monitor at my server just died today? Don’t think so.

Written by Christoph Haas

August 23rd, 2008 at 1:48 pm

Posted in Debian