Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 07:57:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/43976: Binary upgrade to 4.7R fails if package 'freetype2' or 'imake' is already installed Message-ID: <200210121457.g9CEvcu2007040@www.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 43976
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: Binary upgrade to 4.7R fails if package 'freetype2' or 'imake' is already installed
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
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>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sat Oct 12 08:00:03 PDT 2002
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>Originator: Brian Candler
>Release: 4.7-RELEASE
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>Description:
I just tried to upgrade a 4.4 system to 4.7, and it failed because I had package freetype2-2.0.4 installed. In fact, after informing me of this fact, it then told me that "we couldn't even extract the bin distribution. This upgrade should be considered a failure and started from the beginning, sorry! The system will reboot now". That probably makes it seem more catastrophic than it actually was :-) After rebooting, removing that package, and reinstalling, I got the same thing again, but this time because of package "imake". After removing
that it was OK.
It seems that somewhere between 4.4 and 4.7, X moved into the package system (ah yes, I just found it in the release notes for 4.6). However it's maybe worth keeping a note in the errata or upgrade instructions, since normally I wouldn't expect the existence of any package in /usr/local to break a system upgrade.
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>Fix:
Perhaps worth adding a note to the 4.7R errata
For future, change sysinstall to be able to replace a previously installed but older version of the same package?
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