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update-manager package

  1. Bug #54234
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 54234

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote : Re: update-manager for edgy needs to upgrade dpkg/apt before calculating the upgrade to support the new "breaks" - otherwise the upgrade may fail

@mdz:
If we would ship the updated tools in the tarball that would indeed solve the problems.

To do this, we would still need to build a backported libapt/dpkg on a dapper system (because of new glib2.4 symbols it won't run on dapper when build on edgy) and put that in the tarball.

The tarball itself would need to be placed in edgy/dist-upgrader-$(ARCH). Currently soyuz custom upload-format code for this is not able to deal with a arch-dependant dist-upgrader unfortunately. The update-manager assumes a ARCH=all as well (but this would be trivial to fix and put into dapper-updates).

My current solution for this is outlined above. To me it looks not optimal either way. Putting it all into a tarball make the code easier but it involves more work with the build-system and additional soyuz work.

I would appreciate your input on this (which of the two poisons to pick).

Cheers,
 Michael