On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 14:53, Hubert Palme wrote: > it is important to upgrade apt, dpkg and debconf before you do the > majority of the upgrade. Apt has been considerably improved since the > previous releases. Debconf is an essential tool which is in extensive > use in recent packages. > I did this and as a consequence, lots packages have been > removed. Because e.g. some X packages were removed, the X system was > damaged. After doing the dist-upgrade I had to reinstall all those > packages by hand (thus losing the ingenious authomatism of apt :-() > > So my questions: > > - Is it really necessary to upgrade those packages before doing the > dist-upgrade? > > - If yes: Shouldn't we better install the statically linked ones > mentioned in section 3.3.2? > We have to install at least debconf as when you come to upgrade some later packages like the X ones you need debconf. Apt and dpkg are upgraded for good measure. How are we going to solve this? You shouldn't need statically compiled versions if you are running potato. I'd hate to have to suggest this horrid solution. Cheers -- Rob 'robster' Bradford http://robster.org.uk
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