Re: slink -> potato, all messed up!
Goswin Brederlow (goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de) wrote:
>
> You just told dpkg to install all packages you had there without
> regards of versions and current status. You probably installed (or
> tried to) all of debian, which are a few gigs.
Aye, but dselect only downloaded nwer files (supposedly...).
>
> The correct way to upgrade to potato is eigther using dselect or
> apt-get with the appropriate Packages.gz files and directory structure.
> If you realy want to use dpkg directly use "dpkg -iGROEB" as dselect
> does. That way dpkg will only install packages that you already had
> installed and which are newer.
>
... but if you remember my previous posts, apt-get was scrwed and dselect
was stuck on just about all the packages...
Ohh well, it was a learning experience! :)
Ron
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