Re: update slink -> potato
I did not do a full upgrade to potato. Had similar problems as you had
and at that stage I did not have a backup system, so I was not prepared to
take the risk.
It sounds as though a perl cleanup is needed.
Phil.
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> short: it was a desaster and required a _lot_ of hacking.
>
> the two major problems were libc6/debianutils and perl.
> libc6/debianutils each predepends on each other, so you
> can update neither. great. could solve this with --force-depends.
>
> perl: i don´t know the upgrade path. after a lot of manual work
> i got 5.004 installed, and then apt-get could do the rest.
> (till then i had to work with debian-multicd).
>
> what about building current apt* for slink ?
> might make the updates a lot easier.
>
> andreas
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