Re: Upgrading from 1.1 to frozen

[Galen Hazelwood <galenh@micron.net>]

Thomas Koenig wrote:
> 
> I just spent an interesting afternoon trying to upgrade a 1.1 system
> to 1.3.
> 
> First, /var/lib/dpkg/available was corrupted because of some
> incorrect values in the Version - field (somehow they had gotten to
> the format of 1:1-2 or similar; bug report submitted).  I fixed
> these by

This is a legitimate version format.  You failed to upgrade dpkg
before upgrading everything else.  Fellow Debian developers, we
_really_ need to put up warnings that this needs to be done!  Otherwise
innocent people will corrupt their systems by upgrading.  There shoud
be a heavily pointed-to "Upgrade FAQ", explaining that some packages
(dpkg, ldso, libc5) should be upgraded by hand before any attempt at
a massive "all at once" upgrade.

I think this would have prevented most of your other problems as
well...

--Galen


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