[Spce-user] upgrading to 4.2.1 fails on nonexistent old packages

[Alex Lutay]

Dear Alexander,

Thank you for the report here, internal ticket is MT#17665
should be fixed and hotfixed in mr4.2.1 shortly.

On 02/01/2016 02:46 PM, Alexander Topolanek wrote:
> The uprade process fails when it tries to purge a nonexistant package:
> 
> 2016-02-01 14:30:11: [23/36] Step '2.8/handle_apt_install_ngcp' has been
> executed already, continuing with the next step...
> 2016-02-01 14:30:11: [24/36] Running:
> /usr/share/ngcp-upgrade/steps/mr4.2/fix_purge_old_packages
> Reading package lists... 0%
> ... Done^M
> ^MBuilding dependency tree...
> ... Done^M
> E: Unable to locate package linux-headers-2.6-amd64
> E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'linux-headers-2.6-amd64'
> ERROR: the step 'mr4.2/fix_purge_old_packages' failed, upgrade aborted!
> Please fix the root of the issue and restart 'ngcp-upgrade'
> 
> I*ve manually purged what can be purged and then commented out some
> lines in /usr/share/ngcp-upgrade/steps/mr4.2/fix_purge_old_packages.
> After that the upgrade completed

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Alex Lutay