Re: Slink upgrade - the pain of it !!!!!
*Tyson Dowd wrote:
> 1. Debian Slink requires multi-CDs to be created with the correct
> control files. There should be Packages.cd files with the Packages
> files as well as a .disk/info file at the root of the filesystem.
>
> 2. You need to use dpkg-multicd method to use a multi-cd set effectively.
> Apt doesn't appear to support multi-cd installation properly -- it
> doesn't ask you to swap discs properly. Apt can be
> useful for the first step of upgrading from hamm to slink (e.g. just
> upgrading what's on disc 1), but after that use dpkg-multicd.
Last time I checked (a few weeks ago), dpkg-multicd didn't handle
predependencies.
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Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@ull.es
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