[debian-mysql] Bug#685072: upgrade issues

[Félix Sipma]

On 16/08/2012 23:23, Nicholas Bamber wrote:
> tag 685072 +unreproducible +moreinfo
> thanks
>
> I have not managed to reproduce this. I have tried piuparts in three
> ways and a direct -6 to -7 upgrade. I have not had time to do a -5 to -7
> upgrade as I did not have the -5 debs lying around.
>
> I probably won't have time for a day or two to get them from
> snapshot.debian.org. However I cannot see any obvious reason why this
> should make a difference.
>
> Just casting around for ideas the only thing I can think of at the
> moment is can you upgrade from -5 to -7 via -6? You should be able to do
> that easily for the next week with the following steps:
>
> 1.) change the source to testing in /etc/apt/sources.list
> 2.) apt-get update
> 3.) apt-get install mysql-server-5.5
> 4.) change the source back to sid
> 5.) apt-get update
> 6.) apt-get install mysql-server-5.5
>
> Another thing that puzzled me is:
>
> "1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
> 1 not fully installed or removed."
>
> why are so few packages upgraded? I'm guessing that what is required to
> trigger this is some sequence of partial upgrades rather than a
> straightforward "apt-get upgrade". If so I doubt that this would warrant
> the severity I put in earlier.

The solution that worked was to:
1) disable Sid in sources
2) downgrade mysql-server-core-5.5 to 5.5.24+dfsg-6
3) install mysql-server-5.5
4) enable Sid
5) update & upgrade

I guess it wasn't necessary to use testing, and that the downgrading did
the job.

Maybe something should be added in the "depends" section to avoid this
kind of issue?

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Félix
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