[Xastir] Ubuntu-cvsbuild script updated for 10.10

[Jason Godfrey]

The following is speculation based on my experience with other package
managers. I have only used Ubuntu a little bit. I also don't know about any
customizations to your system. Take the following suggestion at your own
risk.

My guess is that interrupting the update process is what caused the problem.
Your software is probably in a weird partially updated state. Running the
script again or "sudo aptitude update" might restore your system to a
working state.

- Jason

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:05 AM, David A Aitcheson <
david.aitcheson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Okay I was able to get it stopped as it was downloading the third
> package and before it did any damage to my developement libraries for my
> college courses.
>
> It wanted to wipe out 66 packages that are used on a weekly basis for my
> college code and hardware developement courses in Alternative Energy.
>
> A lot of them are really weird "how to relate to the windows world"
> translators.
>
> What really irked me was that it takes off and goes with no "are you
> sure" question after it figures out what it needs to do; so if someone
> hits go and walks away it could be a "mess maker" is all that can render
> it down to.
>
> It might be best to use on a machine that is only used for XASTIR and
> nothing else.
>
> I am a college senior on a five year plan; starting the final year this
> month.  At 52 I don't have another 4 years to rebuild everything.
>
> Dave - KB3EFS
>
>
> On 01/03/2011 08:52 PM, Jason Godfrey wrote:
> > The script doesn't look like it deletes any packages, only updates.
> > Perhaps some dependancies for your broken programs were updated, and
> > updating those programs will fix it. I would have thought the package
> > manager would of handled that.
> >
> > Really, four years?
> > - Jason
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 6:52 PM, David A Aitcheson
> > <david.aitcheson at gmail.com <mailto:david.aitcheson at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     ONE HUGE PROBLEM...
> >
> >     This script removes WITHOUT WARNING a bunch of things that BROKE a
> HUGE
> >     bunch or other programs for me.
> >
> >     Thanks for setting me back four (4) years.
> >
> >
> >     On 01/03/2011 02:51 PM, Peter Gamache/KC0TFB wrote:
> >     > Good catch!  I've fixed that.
> >     >
> >     > Prior to yesterday's release, I tried the script on two different
> >     systems:
> >     > one virgin install of 10.10 and another that was upgraded from
> >     10.04 to
> >     > 10.10 (without having run the script prior to the upgrade).  It
> seemed
> >     > fine on both systems anyway, but it seems more common-sensical to
> >     do it
> >     > with the proper release name, as lucid and maverick may diverge on
> >     the GIS
> >     > repo in the future.
> >     >
> >     > Thanks,
> >     > -PG / KC0TFB
> >     >
> >     > Tom Russo wrote:
> >     >> One quick comment:  Your script adds the PPA for UbuntuGIS, which
> >     is a
> >     >> good
> >     >> thing, but always seems to add the "lucid" version to the apt
> sources
> >     >> list,
> >     >> even if it's detected Maverick.
> >     >>
> >     >
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I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.  --
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