Re: dist-upgrade sarge to etch
sigi <dugongs@gmx.de> writes:
> Hi,
>
> some days ago I had to reinstall my system, and I chose debian sarge to
> install on it. Now, I liked to have more recent packages on my machine,
> like I had before.
>
> I tried a 'apt-get dist-upgrade' but this wants me to uninstall nearly
> my whole gnome and kde stuff... totally over 300 packages.
>
> Is this normal, and I should reinstall this packages, after the upgrade,
> or is there sonething wrong with this?
>
> In my sources.list I only have the 'official' mirrors listed, up to now:
>
> deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-amd64/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
That is the inofficial amd64. You may want to change that to
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
And official sources.
> Is there something wrong here, or should I risk this upgrade?
Nothing realy wrong here. Just uninstallable and missing packages. The
unofficial etch was never truely functional. It just got worse lately
and with the official archive shaping up we are basicaly past caring.
If you still want to use it then apt-get install specific
packages. Try what you can update without deinstalling half the
system. Might not be much or anything usefull. My recommendation is to
switch to the official etch and wait it out till it becomes complete.
Only 4 days left till XOrg enters etch. That should allow a ton of
stuff to enter.
> Regards,
> sigi.
MfG
Goswin
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