[Xastir] Ubuntu-cvsbuild script updated for 10.10
Peter Gamache/KC0TFB
peter+aprs at duonet.net
Tue Jan 4 10:04:46 EST 2011
It looks like considerable excitement has occurred in the evening I spent
away from my email...
David, would you care to share your logs so I may understand what
happened? The logs of interest are in /var/log/apt. I'd like to see both
history.log and term.log for the period in which you ran the cvsbuild
script.
The script simply doesn't contain any instructions for apt to
remove/purge/delete anything, so if something got deleted, it may have
been a pending change to your system that was already queued for dpkg to
act upon - something that it would do when any subsequent action was
performed with apt-get (like an ordinary update/upgrade cycle). Did you
have any previous installations, removals or upgrades that had only
partially completed, prior to running the script? Did you regularly keep
your system updated with "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade", prior
to running the script?
Also, these development libraries you speak of ... were they installed in
/usr/lib, /var/lib, or somewhere else? It's possible, if you named
something the same as one of the libraries to be installed, or if you
installed the source of a standard package, then modified it and installed
it where the default library lives, that it would be overwritten by any
future updates. The dpkg/apt system provides a way to freeze packages,
preventing the normal update/upgrade cycle from pulling down new ones - if
you modify a standard library, it's important to flag the package(s) so
they don't get overwritten by subsequent officially-maintained versions.
Thanks,
-PG
Jason Godfrey wrote:
> 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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