in-place upgrade

[bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens)]

Dale or anyone else:

Have you tested the upgrade procedure using "dselect" that Ian touches on
here? I suspect it needs more instructions than there are below. If nobody
else has, I'll have to test this and write instructions this (Tuesday)
evening.

	Thanks

	Bruce

> From: Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>
> 
> I believe that all the mechanisms are now in place for a smooth
> upgrade from 0.93 to 1.1.
> 
> In order to carry out the upgrade you must:
> 
>  1. Install a recent a.out version of dpkg - 1.1.5, for example.
>     If 1.1.5 has no serious problems reported against it by the beta
>     release date it might be worth copying it into the stable tree.
>     Alternatively we can tell people to get the a.out version from
>     some other directory somewhere.
> 
>  2. Use dselect and go through Access/Update/Select/Install/Remove
>     in order.  If you wish some packages not to be upgraded you should
>     put them on hold by pressing shift-H.
> 
> If there are problems with this procedure they are probably bugs.
> 
> I'm telling you this now as it is the first time it has been true, and
> because I'm going away for the weekend again tonight (hopefully I'll
> be able to fix the master cronjobs before then).  I'm mailing
> debian-private so that for the moment only experts get to see this and
> try it out.
> 
> Could whoever writes the beta release announcement include a
> version of the information above ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ian.
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