Re: Upgrading to etch.
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 06:20:38PM +0100, Luis Matos wrote:
> Qua, 2007-04-11 às 17:28 +0200, Alexander Wirt escreveu:
> > Luis Matos schrieb am Mittwoch, den 11. April 2007:
> >
> > > Putting etch in sources.list and removing backports always works.
> > >
> > > (using dist-upgrade)
> > >
> > > versions in backports are always smaller than testing, wich makes the
> > > transition easier.
> > I have a BIG BIG BIG disclaimer here, as we don't stop sarge-bpo it can
> > happen that versions in sarge-bpo can be greater than in etch which can lead
> > to broken upgrade paths from sarge -> etch.
> yes, yes ...
>
> agreed
>
> the answear to it is to use etch + backports entries in sources.list.
>
> These two cases should be documented as guide to users that don't know
> how to handle it.
Upgrading sarge to etch, without backports isn't easy. They've been
rewriting the release notes for months now trying to get a clean upgrade
path (I think they think they are there now). It looks as if it's a lot
more difficult than just changing the sources.list entry.
-- hendrik
> >
> > Just to let you know
> >
> > Your friendly ftp-master
> >
> > Alex
> >
>
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