[OpenAFS-devel] openafs-client 1.8.6 update in ubuntu 18.04 ppa not upgradable

Stephan Wiesand stephan.wiesand@desy.de
Sun, 31 Jan 2021 08:43:21 +0100


Also note this only affects openafs-client, while the other packages =
will upgrade just fine. Since the bug fix sits in the kernel module, =
this is not a critical issue.

- Stephan

> On 31. Jan 2021, at 07:49, Spencer Olson <olsonse@umich.edu> wrote:
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> Thanks for the heads up.  I guess I've been using this for some time
> without looking.
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> On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 11:48 PM Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> wrote:
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>> On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 11:32:52PM -0700, Spencer Olson wrote:
>>> Just a heads up that the 1.8.6 updates in the master ppa that were
>>> uploaded on Jan 15 do not update because of a broken dependency on
>>> init-system-helpers (>=3D 1.54~) whereas the standard install only =
has
>>> up to init-system-helpers 1.51.  I'm guessing that whoever created =
the
>>> packages that were uploaded to the master ppa had a repo that pulled
>>> in a newer version of init-system-helpers.
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>> https://launchpad.net/~openafs/+archive/ubuntu/stable says right at =
the
>> top:
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>> Note: to use this PPA on Ubuntu 18.04 bionic, you will need to =E2=80=98=
apt install
>> init-system-helpers/bionic-backports=E2=80=99 (see
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports).
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>> -Ben
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