Re: Potato to Woody dist-upgrade problems
On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 09:47:49AM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > > apt-get install apt dpkg
> > > apt-get dist-upgrade
> > >
> > > Might yield better results.
> > >
> > Thanks for this useful pointer,
>
> I've sometimes wondered whether the Release file should contain something
> like:
>
> Recommends: apt (>= x.x.x), dpkg (>= x.x.x)
>
> Which would encourage apt to install and upgrade those packages first before
> upgrading the rest of the distribution. Ofcourse there is a question if how
> to start using the new apt that's just been installed.
apt-get would have to handle its own restart with the original command
line. Might have to sleep a while to let the file system come into sync...
>
> Thoughts?
The sooner the better. Once upgraded to this feature, all further upgrades
could be handled automagically. Of course, last release would be better,
but I don't know how to impliment that one ;-)
Luck,
Dwarf
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