On Wednesday 21 March 2007 23:17, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > Some comments for your B option (looks similar to some of the options > described in #401317), which is the one I think should be listed first: Hmm. Rereading #401317 and especially http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=401317;msg=30, we may indeed have an alternative procedure. There are quite a few proposed methods in that mail, which were you referring to? Note that I'm not a fan of Osamu's suggestions as they don't work for desktop installs. The new procedure goes as follows: - aptitude update (/me is still annoyed at the warnings aptitude prints when a new source is added for the first time) - edit sources.list to point to Etch - aptitude _upgrade_ (the 'aptitude upgrade aptitude' suggested by Jonathan is bogus; aptitude is not upgraded by that) - aptitude install initrd-tools libfam0 xlibmesa-glu (all if installed; last two not needed if fixed) - aptitude unmarkauto openoffice.org Possibly we should do the same for 2.6 kernel image packages... - aptitude dist-upgrade - aptitude update (get gpg sigs) - aptitude install linux-2.6-* After all that there is only a few obsolete packages (slang1, ipchains, some libs) to be removed. Let's call this alternative 'C'. I've tested this and it works fine for a default desktop install. This also has the advantage of not switching back to apt-get as the primary package management tool.
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