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Re: How do I go from Lenny to unstable?



On Mon August 30 2010, James Stuckey wrote:
> From dpkg:
> 14:38 <dpkg> Ask me about <squeeze udev>, as you will need to upgrade to
> the squeeze kernel and reboot first.  Remove any APT source specific to
> stable (such as volatile) or bpo, then s/lenny/squeeze/ on your
> sources.list and then aptitude update && aptitude install aptitude
> linux-image-`uname -r | sed 's,.*-,,'` ; reboot; aptitude safe-upgrade &&
> aptitude full-upgrade.  Also ask me about <d-d-a>, <apt-listchanges>,
> <testing>, <squeeze release notes>.

I don't quite understand that first line..:
> From dpkg:
> 14:38 <dpkg> Ask me about <squeeze udev>

how do you ask dpkg about squeeze? ( man dpkg didn't shed alot of light...)

Can you, or is there any reason to install the squeeze kernel and NOT upgrade 
to squeeze?

-- 
Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800
Registered Ubuntu User #12459


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