Yesterday I upgraded to KDE 4.8.2 by finally catching up to -current again.
The Changelog had some notes:
Code:
NOTE: After upgrading, the following obsolete KDE packages should be removed:
kdeaccessibility, kdebase, kdebase-runtime, kdebase-workspace,
kdebindings, kdeedu, kdegraphics, kdeutils, koffice, konq-plugins,
kopete-cryptography, polkit-kde-1, and all koffice-l10n-*.
I executed those notes by doing a removepkg on the old packages. removepkg showed some lines like (not exact):
Code:
WARNING: file xxx changed after installation
I remembered one of the many such lines. After I was finished with the notes I looked for the file mentioned. It was gone. I grepped /var/log/packages for the file. It was listed in kde-baseapps-4.8.2-i486-1.
I did a 'slackpkg reinstall kde-baseapps-4.2.8-i486-1' and the file re-appeared in its normal place.
A bit worried, I wrote some horrible bash scripts to help me locate missing files (run as root, output is in missingfiles.txt in the /root directory):
verifypackages.sh
Code:
#!/bin/bash
# verifypackages.sh
# For every file in /var/log/packages calls a script to verify
# that all files listed in the package exist.
# If called script exit code is 1 list the package name.
for name in `ls /var/log/packages` ;
do
/root/verifypackagefiles.sh </var/log/packages/${name} ;
[[ $? == 1 ]] && echo ${name} ;
done >/root/missingfiles.txt
and verifypackagefiles.sh
Code:
#!/bin/bash
# verifypackagefiles.sh
# Reads a package installation log. For every line after the text FILE LIST:
# verifies that the file exists. If it does not it echoes the file name and
# sets the exit code to 1.
infilelist=0
export retcode=0
while read aline
do
if [[ ${infilelist} == 1 && \
${aline} != install/* && \
${aline} != *.new && \
${aline} != *.orig ]] ; then
if ! [ -a "/${aline}" ] ; then
echo " " ${aline} does not exist ;
export retcode=1;
fi
fi
if [ "${aline}" == "FILE LIST:" ] ; then
infilelist=1;
fi
done
exit ${retcode};
Ignoring all of the entries in /dev that devs-2.3.1-noarch-25 doesn't install (?), there are about 1,000 files "missing." Almost all of them are in /usr/doc/HTML/en. Here's a short snippet:
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usr/doc/HTML/en/ark/ does not exist
usr/doc/HTML/en/ark/ark-mainwindow.png does not exist
usr/doc/HTML/en/ark/index.docbook does not exist
usr/doc/HTML/en/ark/man-ark.1.docbook does not exist
usr/doc/HTML/en/ark/index.cache.bz2 does not exist
ark-4.8.2-i486-1
usr/doc/HTML/en/blinken/ does not exist
usr/doc/HTML/en/blinken/blinken_nickprompt.png does not exist
usr/doc/HTML/en/blinken/blinken_helpbutton.png does not exist
usr/doc/HTML/en/blinken/index.docbook does not exist
usr/doc/HTML/en/blinken/index.cache.bz2 does not exist
usr/doc/HTML/en/blinken/blinken_highscoresbutton.png does not exist
usr/doc/HTML/en/blinken/blinken1.png does not exist
usr/doc/HTML/en/blinken/blinken_accesskeys.png does not exist
usr/doc/HTML/en/blinken/blinken2.png does not exist
usr/doc/HTML/en/blinken/blinken_quitbutton.png does not exist
blinken-4.8.2-i486-1
Skipping the devs-2.3.1, ca-certificates, and glibc packages that are listed, should I reinstall all of the listed packages to get the documentation back? I've done a couple on a test machine and the missing files re-appeared.
Did I do something wrong on the upgrade? I simply did:
Code:
slackpkg update
slackpkg install-new
slackpkg upgrade-all
removepkg <packages listed in Changelog NOTES>
Thanks for reading and thanks, too, for any advice.
