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Re: woody upgrade still breaks apt-get



On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 02:25:46PM +1100, Russ Pitman wrote:
> Over the last few days I have installed/reinstalled potato systems and
> have used the apt-get update/apt-get upgrade to bring up a woody
> installation.

Don't know if it helps, but for doing an upgrade of releases (and for
tracking unstable) it might be better to use dist-upgrade.  But I have
no idea where the 'something wicked' error is coming from.
 
> Always after the upgrade finishes apt-get fails with the 'something wicked'
> error.
> 
> I have tried using just 'nameserver localhost' in resolv.conf but unless my
> ISP's nameserver is present also apt-get will not start.
> 
> Using a potato system on a separate drive to download is poor solution, so
> is there a fix I have missed? I will have another try now, which means a
> reboot to potato and relogin. No mail on that one so I will back later to
> report. 
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-- 
#! /bin/sh
# ppp-address: What's my Internet Address for ppp0 ?
/sbin/ifconfig ppp0 2> /dev/null | grep 'inet addr:' | sed \
's=.*inet addr\:\([0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}\).*=\1='



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