Re: General Update Hints Potato->Woody
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 04:56:36PM -0500, Thomas R. Shemanske wrote:
> Check out http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/, in particular the
> release notes.
>
> In addition, there are somewhat general rules (which others on the list
> will no doubt improve upon):
>
> Change your sources.list to point to woody (realizing you may actually
> have to pull a few things from sid which may have been removed from
> woody due to RC bugs)
>
> apt-get update
>
> Then upgrade apt apt-utils dpkg debconf perl as a start before thinking
> about a general upgrade
>
> Try apt-get -s -u dist-upgrade |less to see what is going to happen. If
> it looks like you will remove a zillion packages, try to find out why
> first.
>
> For example, apt-get -s -u install libc6 might be a good move, and so on.
I agree.
I would suggest to install just "apt" as first package for "apt-get
install". (This automatically pulls libc6 and most key packages but not
to cause mass updates).
Having new apt-get command from woody provides much better control.
See my web page for woody transition.
http://qref.sf.net/quick/ Follow link to the woody upgrade.
This also talks about how to set up /etc/apt/preferences.
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