Re: Upgrading to lenny

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Francesco Pietra <chiendarret@yahoo.com> writes:

> For a NUMA type, raid1 machine, I wish to upgrade from amd64 etch to lenny by just interchanging those names in sources.list. What kind of problems should I be prepared to solve for non-deb, in situ compiled programs, in particular:
>
> OpenMPI 1.2.3 with libnuma.1
>
> ifort 9.1.036
>
> icc 9.1.042
>
> needed for several computational programs?

Only the obvious. Watch out for libraries they need.

> Also, what should I expect for amd64 in relation to the followin? I have just completed etch to lenny upgrading for a i386 desktop. Everything OK were not for a list of errors (sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned error code 1) included:
>
> exim4-daemon-light
> at
> exim4
> bsd-mailx
> mailx
>
> Can't find which program is affected (mail from gnome, ssh, in situ compiled graphic programs, programs driven by wine, all OK).
>
> Thanks
>
> francesco pietra

The same.

Maybe you should ask this on debian-user though. This isn't an amd64
porting problem but just normal Debian use.

MfG
        Goswin