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| author | Michael Vogt <michael.vogt@ubuntu.com> | 2006-01-25 17:12:45 +0100 |
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| committer | Michael Vogt <michael.vogt@ubuntu.com> | 2006-01-25 17:12:45 +0100 |
| commit | 8591e0cddf642b028e99d9c10be34073a023240b (patch) | |
| tree | ffe33ef4ef0f678895d9d6f912cdd231e483d004 /DistUpgrade | |
| parent | f8a5787cfd0143bae105db79cd28ef073ca776c4 (diff) | |
| download | python-apt-8591e0cddf642b028e99d9c10be34073a023240b.tar.gz | |
* some more thought about the upgrade problem
Diffstat (limited to 'DistUpgrade')
| -rw-r--r-- | DistUpgrade/TODO | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/DistUpgrade/TODO b/DistUpgrade/TODO index fa31c041..9d26eefc 100644 --- a/DistUpgrade/TODO +++ b/DistUpgrade/TODO @@ -32,4 +32,14 @@ Robustness: DescURI for each failed item and guess from it what sources.list line failed (e.g. uri.endswith("Sources{.bz2|.gz") -> deb-src, get base-uri, find 'dists' in uri etc) -
\ No newline at end of file + +- don't stop if a single pkg fails to upgrade: + - the problem here is apt, in apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc it will stop if + dpkg returns a non-zero exit code. The problem with this is of course + that this may happen in the middle of the upgrade, leaving half the + packages unpacked but not configured or loads of packages unconfigured. + One possible solution is to not stop in apt but try to continue as long + as possible. The problem here is that e.g. if libnoitfy0 explodes and + evolution, update-notifer depend on it, continuing means to evo and u-n + can't be upgraded and dpkg explodes on them too. This is not more worse + than what we have right now I guess.
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