Experience updating bo->hamm
I decided to update my machine to Hamm yesterday. I downloaded the
CDROM image yesterday and went for the update. I noted the following
problems:
To avoid the known problems with teTeX - I removed those packages first.
a) autoup.sh on the CD is out of date already... I downloaded version
0.25 from http://www.taz.net.au/autoup/
b) It is confusing to have conflicts in the Required section.
e2fsprogs, comerr2g, ss2g are all required - but you cannot install them
all together. Perhaps ss2g and comerr2g do not belong in the required
section.
c) I updated all packages - I may have caused confusion by trying to
select comerr2g as I thought it was required - so had to run multiple
passes of install until the conflicts were properly resolved.
d) The CDROM boots - I did not try any options - I will try to see if the
rescue option gets me anywhere tonight.
e) I updated my non-free and contrib software using ftp. Only package I
did not see is kermit. (old binary still works though).
In general - not such a bad process. I think (b) above will cause the most
confusion for most people.
Ezra
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