[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Re: rebooting constantly after upgrading packages

[From: Disconnect]

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Michael Flaig did have cause to say:

> Oh and just a hint: I installed some packages from unofficial repos (but 
> listed in the wiki) that seemed to have broken the dpkg status file on my 
> 770.. Quickest way to fix this was making backup and reflashing :-( 
> .o(Note to myself: You need to verify this ...)

Manual editing of the status file can solve this.  I've had it get corrupted 
several times (lost the "itit" off an i18n package, so it complained about 
the package having no files.. added random garbage chars in place of the 
version of another package, etc..)

Also, if you catch it immediately, status.old should still be a (mostly) 
valid version, sans whatever changes were made that caused it. So you can 
use that as a reference when recreating the file.

All this lives in /usr/lib/dpkg IIRC (or /var/lib/dpkg?)

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Michael
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian at SSpaeth.de>
> To: maemo-developers at maemo.org
> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 9:22:03 PM GMT+0100
> Subject: [maemo-developers] Re: rebooting constantly after upgrading packages
> 
> Michael Flaig wrote:
> > afaik apt-get upgrading isn´t meant for consumers.
> > Remember, you read the info about rd mode and breaking the device ...
> 
> I would agree with your assessment if I were running sardine. I would
> expect frequent breakages and I would expect that I would have to figure
> out the source of these on my own. However, I am only running the
> "stable" repositories so far. So compare that to debian (on which this
> thing is based): If I update the stable distribution and it breaks for a
> lot of people, wouldn't you expect someone to upgrade/revert that
> package? As simple apt-get upgrade should be expected by users who are
> told this thing is debian based.
> 
> As for rd-mode: I haven't enabled it, so I guess i am still within the
> reach of what you would expect of regular (power-)consumers. Heck, that
> tableteer website even advertizes the additional programs from the
> repositories, so I guess consumers are supposed to install and update stuff!
> 
> > But I absolutly agree that these packages need to be removed or fixed.
> > Hopefully someone at nokia will do it for us.
> 
> We are on the same side on this one :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Spaetz
> 
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