Re: upgrade woes
On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 07:21:57PM +0100, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>
> > Last night I decided to upgrade one of my machines from stable to
> > testing.
> >
> > It's still going, 24 hours later (with breaks for sleep and work etc,
> > but still).
> >
> > It's needed constant attention: apt installs a few packages, then
> > demands interaction before it installing any more.
>
> Did you try upgrading dpkg and apt before running the rest of the
> upgrade?
Good point. There are a number of speedups and memory footprint reductions in
dpkg. Can't say much about apt.
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