Re: How long will updates to Etch be available?
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:15:22 +0200, Csanyi Pal (csanyipal@gmail.com) wrote:
> Sjoerd Hardeman <sjoerd@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl> writes:
>
> > Siju George wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I understand that Once a release is made updates to the previous
> >> release will be made for an year more.
> >> Will Etch be actively maintained or should I upgrade to Lenny as
> >> soon as possible?
> > Only security updates will be made to Etch, for still nine more
> > months. Yet, as Lenny is stable now, it also won't get new features.
> > I don't think it is wise to run Etch when the security support ends,
> > so upgrading before January 2010 seems sane to me.
> > Yet, of course do take time to plan and test your update cycle
> > appropriately, don't wait until the last day.
> >
> > Sjoerd
>
> But I have on my Pentium I or II (?) PC box a Debian Etch that I can't
> to upgrade to Lenny because of this bug (?):
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=517986
Ok, so this says:
> After I edited the sources.list and add a debian mirror, I run
> 'aptitude update' but get the message: 'Illegal instruction'. After
> that I can't to use aptitude anymore, nor apt-get anymore.
Did you get a reply to your bug report? If not, then perhaps posting a
copy here of your sources.list - with the mirror which is causing you
your problem added - and see if someone can help you.
> If I chnage back the state of the file hashing (#) the lines with
> debian mirror, and run again 'aptitude update' I can to use aptitude
> again.
>
> I have only the first Installation CD and want to use network to
> install other packages.
>
> Is this a bug and how can I solve this problem?
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