m68k debian sid dist-upgrade and mawk
Stan Johnson <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.debian.ports.68k |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hello,
FYI if anyone is noticing that mawk stopped working on m68k systems
running Debian SID.
During an "apt-get dist-upgrade" on an m68k system (running as a -virt
system in QEMU), the upgrade hung while processing a PERL package (I can
restore from backups and run the dist-upgrade again if anyone would like
to see all of the installation messages).
Before the dist-upgrade, mawk was behaving normally as far as I could
tell. A short investigation revealed that mawk began hanging during the
upgrade (even "mawk --version" hung). Eventually, the dist-upgrade ran
when I copied gawk from a Gentoo installation and pointed awk to that
instead of mawk, then re-ran "apt-get dist-upgrade."
After the dist-upgrade, I removed mawk ("apt-get purge mawk") and
installed gawk ("apt-get install gawk"). Everything seems to be working
normally again.
-Stan Johnson