Re: dist-upgrade from stable to testing

[Phil Reardon <pcreard@home.com>]

On Monday 13 August 2001 11:36 pm, John Galt wrote:
> mkdir /etc/exim then rerun apt-get dist-upgrade...  You won't have to
> re-download the 166M, BTW.
>
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Phil Reardon wrote:
> >After apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade to testing, I got a successful
> >download of 166 MB. But during the install/config, I saw this message:
> >
> >mv: cannot create regjular file '/etc/exim/exim.conf' ;  No such file or
> >directory.
> > .(stuff removed)

Thanks, John:

I tried creating the exim directory and even did a touch exim.conf there. 
Then I did apt-get dist-upgrade again and it complained of unmet dependencies 
and recommended apt-get -f install.  I did that too, and then things 
proceeded okay.  I think I have Woody now!