apt-* (dist-)upgrade 3.1.4 to 3.2.2 Woody Debs Very Alarming
I'd like to try out the upgrade path from KDE 3.1.4 to KDE 3.2.2 using
the Woody debs that someone (Andreas Mueller ?) has posted at
download.kde.org.
My system is running vanilla Woody, apart from XFree86 which I
upgraded from Woody's 4.1.0 to backports.org's 4.2.1 some while back.
I'm currently running the Ralf Nolden download.k.o KDE 3.1.4 debs.
If I use "apt-get -s (dist-)upgrade" to see what the upgrade proposes,
I get totally scary output for both cases.
Since people keep telling us that apt-get is braindead, and that
aptitude does a better job, I tried that too, with similarly scary
results. Since aptitude's output is more compact, I include it here.
As you can see, a plain "upgrade" will only upgrade my XFree86, plus
some random _parts_ of KDE (the rest would be _removed_).
On the other hand, a "dist-upgrade" would do much the same *and* would
_remove_ huge unrelated, and in some cases *vital* parts of my system
... such as MySQL, Samba, PPP, Freeswan, man-db, fetchmail, htdig,
ssh, gcc, etc., etc.
Anyone got any clue as to whether this is tractable, or is something
badly broken to the point of uselessness here ?
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# aptitude -s upgrade
Reading Package Lists... 0%Reading Package Lists... 100%Reading
Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... 0%Building Dependency Tree... 0%Building
Dependency Tree... 50%Building Dependency Tree... 50%Building
Dependency Tree... 86%Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
ark arts artsbuilder debconf kaboodle kaddressbook kandy kappfinder
kasteroids kate kaudiocreator kbackgammon kcontrol kdeartwork-style
kdebase kdebase-bin kdebase-dev kdebase-kio-plugins kdelibs-bin
kdelibs-data kdelibs4 kdelibs4-dev kdemultimedia
kdemultimedia-kfile-plugins kdemultimedia-kio-plugins kdeprint
kdesktop
kdf kdm kfind kgamma kget kgpg kgpgcertmanager khelpcenter kicker
klipper
kmahjongg kmail kmenuedit kmid kmix knode knotes konqueror
konqueror-nsplugins konsole kopete kpackage kpager kpersonalizer
kppp
krec ksame kscd kscreensaver ksmserver ksplash ksysguard ksysguardd
ksysv
ktip kwin libarts1 libarts1-audiofile libarts1-dev libarts1-mpeglib
libarts1-xine libkdegames1 libkdenetwork2 libkonq4 libnspr4 libnss3
libpaperg libqt3-headers libqt3-mt-dev mozilla-browser mozilla-psm
mpeglib noatun qt3-dev-tools quanta snmp x-window-system-core
xbase-clients xlibmesa-gl-dev xlibmesa-glu-dev xlibmesa3 xlibs
xlibs-dev
xterm
The following packages will be upgraded:
imlib-base kde-i18n-engb kdeartwork-misc kdebase-data kdelibs4-doc
lbxproxy libartsc0 libartsc0-dev libdps1 libfreetype6
libfreetype6-dev
libmimelib1 libsnmp-base libusb-0.1-4 libxaw6 libxaw7 libxml2
libxslt1
proxymngr twm x-window-system xdm xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi
xfonts-base
xfonts-konsole xfonts-scalable xfree86-common xfs xfwp xlibmesa-dev
xnest
xprt xserver-common xserver-xfree86 xspecs xutils xvfb
38 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 91 not
upgraded.
Need to get 54.4MB of archives. After unpacking 43.2MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/e/d/v/action/?] Abort.
# aptitude -s dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... 0%Reading Package Lists... 100%Reading
Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... 0%Building Dependency Tree... 0%Building
Dependency Tree... 50%Building Dependency Tree... 50%Building
Dependency Tree... 84%Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
libsnmp5 libxrender1 xlibmesa-gl xlibmesa-glu
The following packages will be automatically REMOVED:
abiword abiword-common abiword-gtk abiword-plugins adduser ark arts
artsbuilder base-config bonobo bsdmainutils console-common
console-data
console-tools cvs diald dpkg-dev efax enscript fetchmail
fetchmail-common
freeswan gcc-3.0 gdm gnome-applets gnome-panel gnome-panel-data
gnome-session gnome-utils gs gs-common guarddog gv htdig ipchains
ipmenu
iptables kaboodle kaddressbook kandy kappfinder karbon kasteroids
kate
kaudiocreator kbackgammon kbear kcd kchart kcontrol kde-theme-liquid
kdeartwork-style kdebase kdebase-bin kdebase-dev kdebase-kio-plugins
kdelibs-bin kdelibs4 kdelibs4-dev kdemultimedia
kdemultimedia-kfile-plugins kdemultimedia-kio-plugins kdepim-libs
kdeprint kdesktop kdevelop kdevelop-data kdf kdm kernel-package
kernel-source-2.4.18 kfind kformula kgamma kget kgpg kgpgcertmanager
khelpcenter kicker kit kivio klipper kmahjongg kmail kmenuedit kmid
kmidi
kmix kmyfirewall knode knotes koffice koffice-libs konqueror
konqueror-nsplugins konsole kontour kopete koshell kpackage kpager
kpersonalizer kppp kpresenter krec ksame kscd kscreensaver ksmserver
ksplash kspread ksysguard ksysv ktip kugar kwin kword kxconfig
leafnode
less lftp libarts1 libarts1-audiofile libarts1-dev libarts1-mpeglib
libarts1-xine libglide3 libgnomeprint-bin libgnomeprint-data
libgnomeprint15 libgtkhtml20 libkdegames1 libkdenetwork2 libkonq4
libpaperg libqt3-mt libqt3-mt-dev localeconf locales magicfilter
man-db
mirrormagic modconf mozilla-browser mozilla-psm mpeglib
msttcorefonts
mysql-server nas-dev nas-lib netbase noatun ntpdate pidentd poster
ppp
pppconfig pppoe pppoeconf psfontmgr psutils qt3-dev-tools quanta
samba
samba-common smbclient smbfs ssh swat telnetd whiptail wvdial
x-ttcidfont-conf x-window-system x-window-system-core xaw3dg xdm
xlibmesa3-gl xlibmesa3-glu xlibs-pic xnest xpdf xpdf-reader
xpdf-utils
xprt xprt-common xserver-common xserver-xfree86
The following packages have been kept back:
debconf xbase-clients xlibs xlibs-dev xterm
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libsnmp5 libxrender1 xlibmesa-gl xlibmesa-glu
The following packages will be REMOVED:
abiword abiword-common abiword-gtk abiword-plugins adduser ark arts
artsbuilder base-config bonobo bsdmainutils console-common
console-data
console-tools cvs diald dpkg-dev efax enscript fetchmail
fetchmail-common
freeswan gcc-3.0 gdm gnome-applets gnome-panel gnome-panel-data
gnome-session gnome-utils gs gs-common guarddog gv htdig ipchains
ipmenu
iptables kaboodle kaddressbook kandy kappfinder karbon kasteroids
kate
kaudiocreator kbackgammon kbear kcd kchart kcontrol kde-theme-liquid
kdeartwork-style kdebase kdebase-bin kdebase-dev kdebase-kio-plugins
kdelibs-bin kdelibs4 kdelibs4-dev kdemultimedia
kdemultimedia-kfile-plugins kdemultimedia-kio-plugins kdepim-libs
kdeprint kdesktop kdevelop kdevelop-data kdf kdm kernel-package
kernel-source-2.4.18 kfind kformula kgamma kget kgpg kgpgcertmanager
khelpcenter kicker kit kivio klipper kmahjongg kmail kmenuedit kmid
kmidi
kmix kmyfirewall knode knotes koffice koffice-libs konqueror
konqueror-nsplugins konsole kontour kopete koshell kpackage kpager
kpersonalizer kppp kpresenter krec ksame kscd kscreensaver ksmserver
ksplash kspread ksysguard ksysv ktip kugar kwin kword kxconfig
leafnode
less lftp libarts1 libarts1-audiofile libarts1-dev libarts1-mpeglib
libarts1-xine libglide3 libgnomeprint-bin libgnomeprint-data
libgnomeprint15 libgtkhtml20 libkdegames1 libkdenetwork2 libkonq4
libpaperg libqt3-mt libqt3-mt-dev localeconf locales magicfilter
man-db
mirrormagic modconf mozilla-browser mozilla-psm mpeglib
msttcorefonts
mysql-server nas-dev nas-lib netbase noatun ntpdate pidentd poster
ppp
pppconfig pppoe pppoeconf psfontmgr psutils qt3-dev-tools quanta
samba
samba-common smbclient smbfs ssh swat telnetd whiptail wvdial
x-ttcidfont-conf x-window-system x-window-system-core xaw3dg xdm
xlibmesa3-gl xlibmesa3-glu xlibs-pic xnest xpdf xpdf-reader
xpdf-utils
xprt xprt-common xserver-common xserver-xfree86
The following packages will be upgraded:
imlib-base kde-i18n-engb kdeartwork-misc kdebase-data kdelibs-data
kdelibs4-doc ksysguardd lbxproxy libartsc0 libartsc0-dev libdps1
libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev libmimelib1 libnspr4 libnss3
libqt3-headers
libsnmp-base libusb-0.1-4 libxaw6 libxaw7 libxml2 libxslt1 proxymngr
snmp
twm xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base xfonts-konsole
xfonts-scalable
xfree86-common xfs xfwp xlibmesa-dev xlibmesa-gl-dev
xlibmesa-glu-dev
xlibmesa3 xspecs xutils xvfb
41 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 188 to remove and 5 not
upgraded.
Need to get 56.6MB of archives. After unpacking 382MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/e/d/v/action/?] Abort.
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disclaimer: I'm just a user, not a developer. I use Woody cause I
don't have the time or the knowledge ro wrangle with unstable.
PS: I could post the apt-get output if anyone thought it would be
useful.
Cheers,
Nick Boyce
Bristol, UK
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