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

[Alex Lutay]

Fixed.

The step "/usr/share/ngcp-upgrade/steps/mr4.2/fix_purge_old_packages"
should care about the list of installed packages before purging
unnecessary. Released hotfix for mr4.2.1 already.

On 02/01/2016 03:54 PM, Alex Lutay wrote:
> 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