Re: upgrading to potato
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Jean-Paul Blaquiere wrote:
> after reinstalling my alpha over the last couple of days, I felt that going
> back to potato was a sane idea. However, dropped new kernel in *smile* worked
> okay and those syscalls that complained about a lack of lchown disappeared.
> BUT, after:
> apt-get update (after editing the /etc/apt/sources.list file to
> appropriately say usntable)
> apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> crashes on updating bash. It says cannot execute post-installaton scripts,
> not present (or similar) and the machine becomes unusable.
> I presume that this is not the correct way about upgrading?
> I vaguely remember someone writing a procedure on how to do it, but don't
> remember what the link is.......
Give it another day. I just uploaded the new bash yesterday (it's
statically linked to libreadline now), so it should work out better than
before. Of course, since I already run potato, I haven't tested the
upgrade path myself, so YMMV.
C
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