Re: Upgrading (was: The next level of Custom Debian Distributions)
Knut Yrvin wrote:
This document is a result of talking to Jonas Smedegaard and Petter
Renholdtsen about upgradring a Custom Debian Distributions (CDD) to a
new version og Debian. I have based this on the issues that occurs
when upgrading from Skolelinux based on Woody to the new one based on
Sarge.
This reply is slightly off topic, but may be nice to know anyway.
For test purposes, I did a test of upgrading a combined server installed
with venus , and upgrading it to sarge as off today. I used a somewhat
recent CD-image to prevent everything from beeing fetched over the net,
but the result should be the same. The machine also had some
dev-packages installed, but I dont think their the one that causes the
trouble.
First I started a apt-get dist-upgrade. This is the way most people
would do the upgrade. This would lead to a lot of packages beeing
uninstalled, and some packages beeing kept back, as you can see from
http://d.skolelinux.no/~finnarne/apt-get_dist-upgrade_woody-sarge_20050502.log
I aborted the "apt-get dist-upgrade" to do some other test.
Then I tested with just an "apt-get upgrade". You might se the log at
http://d.skolelinux.no/~finnarne/apt-get_upgrade_woody-sarge_20050502.log
Finally, I did what are supposed to be the correct way of doing the
upgrade, and that is to use "aptitude dist-upgrade". The short report is
this:
631 packages upgraded, 349 newly installed, 52 to remove and 17 not
upgraded.
after everything is downloaded and installed, we end up with
Der opstod fejl under behandlingen:
libio-pty-perl
libssl0.9.7
libnet-ssleay-perl
libtext-unaccent-perl
lesstif2
perl
foomatic-bin
libnet-dns-perl
libxml-parser-perl
libxrender1
perl-modules
libtext-iconv-perl
libxft2
libmd5-perl
libnet-ldap-perl
xfree86-common
libunicode-string-perl
libhtml-parser-perl
autoconf
libwww-perl
libpam0g-dev
liburi-perl
libhtml-tagset-perl
autoconf2.13
webmin-ldap-user-simple
libnet-perl
libhtml-tree-perl
libdigest-hmac-perl
You might read the full logfile (warning, the logfile is 4.2 MB) at:
http://d.skolelinux.no/~finnarne/aptitude_dist-upgrade_woody-sarge_20050502.log
OK - now I'm off to reinstall my woody test-server ....
--
Finn-Arne Johansen
faj@bzz.no
http://bzz.no/
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