578 Upgrades? [solved]

[jcoleman]

@laprjns - couldn't do anything - no keyboard response - no "typee" at all

@JRD - we all have our "duh" moments,

---like I tried to reinstall off the USB stick, but this bios gets cranky at times, sometimes it works sometimes not, doesn't seem to matter whether I use unetbootin or "dd". My other puters work fine with the USB stick. Soooo, I booted into a Puppy CD and did the USB stick again, still wouldn't boot; me being cheap I didn't want to burn a DVD but did, EXCEPT I burned it with the Slackware64.iso, "thought the install screens were different" - I'll wake up here sometime

[fredg]

Only those who do nothing are never wrong

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[witek]

I have another upgrade problem:

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Upgrading package distribute-0.6.28-i486-1fg -> distribute-0.6.32-i486-1fg...
| distribute (Easily build and distribute Python packages)
| 
| Distribute is a fork of the Setuptools project. Distribute is intended
| to replace Setuptools as the standard method for working with Python
| module distributions.
| Providing a backward compatible version to replace Setuptools and make
| all distributions that depend on Setuptools work as before, but with
| less bugs and behaviorial issues.
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
ERROR: Can't create file over existing directory. (usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg-info)
ERROR: Failed to extract file usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg-info.
ERROR: Package upgrade failed!

[gapan]

Only those who do nothing are never wrong

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That's exactly what you should do in a stable repository: nothing.

Nothing other than what's absolutely necessary and once more it seems that we have broken that rule and once more that has gotten us into trouble. The repositories are not a playground.

[JRD]

About "distribute", I don't know. It's not related to the problem earlier.

[fredg]

That's exactly what you should do in a stable repository: nothing.

I think the trouble is that it is stable only for the Xfce release, so we will have to "play" with it again.
The release was maybe a little bit too quick.

Nothing other than what's absolutely necessary and once more it seems that we have broken that rule and once more that has gotten us into trouble. The repositories are not a playground.

I don't think that JRD was playing and having fun making some crap, and BTW, it is his own server.
He knows what he has done wrong and already apologized, no need to publicly yell at him.
Everybody can make a mistake, I'm sure that even you, can make one, no ?

Best regards.

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[witek]

About "distribute", I don't know. It's not related to the problem earlier.

Seems to be a problem with slapt-get as when I manually removed this packages then manually installed it from slapt cache with installpkg it worked.

[JRD]

A problem with spkg then, not with slapt-get.

[witek]

He knows what he has done wrong and already apologized, no need to publicly yell at him.

Tell this to Linus
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75