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[Florian Franzmann <siflfran AT hawo.net>]

On Mi 2014-03-26 18:26:15 +0100, Thomas Orgis wrote:
> Am Wed, 26 Mar 2014 17:48:05 +0100
> schrieb Florian Franzmann <siflfran AT hawo.net>: 
> 
> > Honestly, I don't think that we will come up with a working migration
> > path. We've had this situation for over a year now and nobody has
> > has been able to solve it.
> 
> Just about any SMGL system update I did over the years needed manual
> intervention and multiple tries to succeed. This may be just because of
> missing upstream sources (deleting non-freshest release). Heck, we
> still have the mandatory circular dependencies, haven't we? (thinking
> of xorg and gs, gtk/pango/cairo cruft) So, for folks that are still
> with us, a bumpy migration is nothing unexpected.
> 
> All I'm asking for is some instructions on how to get the migration
> done with manual intervention. At least one should be warned before
> going through with the update and an unattended update should result in
> a state that still makes it possible to recover manually in the running
> system. We have this nice system of important messages that get
> repeated after the cast ... if there's some hint about how to get it
> done, some manual labor is fine for the seasoned mages we still have
> with us.
My solution for the icu problem was to deinstall everything that
depended directly or indirectly on icu and reinstall it. There may be
a more graceful way of fixing the system but I haven't found one.
> 
> 
> Alrighty then,
> 
> Thomas



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