Subject: Re: DANGER: installing ld.so & libc5 with dftp

From: [email-masked] (Bruce Perens)
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 96 11:29 PDT

> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:19:55 -0400
> From: "Brian C. White" <[email-masked]>
> 
> Apparently, until "ld.so" is configured "libc5" won't install, and if
> "libc5" insn't configured then perl breaks.  After which nothing will
> install.

Am I right in assuming that this is an upgrade from 0.93 to 1.1 ?
I can't think of another reason that libc5 would not be installed.

	Thanks

	Bruce

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From: "Brian C. White" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 15:42:06 -0400

> I can't think of another reason that libc5 would not be installed.

No.  This was a recent upgarde of a few packages in unstable on a
right-up-to-date system.  As I understand it, what happened was
approximately this...

  dpkg --install .../ldso* .../libc5* .../<other packages>

the results were

  unpack ldso
  unpack libc5    (error "perl: cannot find libdl.so.1")
  unpack <others> (error "perl: cannot find libdl.so.1" occasionally)

Apperently it never configured ldso before proceeding to the remaining
packages.  Configuring ldso and libc5 and then installing everything again
was successful.

(Note that this is from memory and so may not be entirely accurate.)
                                              
                                          Brian
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From: "Brian C. White" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 15:42:06 -0400

the results were

  unpack ldso

                                              
                                          Brian
                                 ( [email-masked] )

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From: Mike Coleman <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 96 17:09 CDT

Date: Fri, 13 Sep 96 11:29 PDT
   From: [email-masked] (Bruce Perens)

I don't have a log of what happened, so take this with a grain of salt, but my
impression was that ld.so and libc5 both existed, but were going to be
updated, and it was the update that didn't work correctly.

In particular, I believe I started with a set of buzz-fixed boot disks, and
then installed rex packages on the system.  I'm assuming that ld.so or libc5
has been updated since the buzz-fixed disks were last cut.

--Mike

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From: Mike Coleman <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 96 17:09 CDT

--Mike

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From: [email-masked] (David Engel)
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 21:50:14 -0500 (CDT)

>   unpack <others> (error "perl: cannot find libdl.so.1" occasionally)

This is due to a problem in the ld.so packaging.  It will be fixed in
the next version.  Until it's available, you should install ld.so by
itself.

David
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From: [email-masked] (David Engel)
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 21:50:14 -0500 (CDT)

David