Re: Progeny->Woody Upgrade Alternatives?

["Doc - KD4E" <e.net@verizon.net>]

> Progeny to Woody howto
> http://www.debianplanet.org/debianplanet/article.php?sid=450

Been using that one.  It is incomplete since it fails to mention the
trashing
of pcmcia, among other things.

> Progeny to unstable
> http://www.debianplanet.org/debianplanet/article.php?sid=414
>     scott

Now this is interesting.  Why is it simpler than the Progeny->Woody
upgrade?

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Tips 'n' Tricks: Progeny->Sid sidegrade
Posted by DanielS on Tuesday, October 02 @ 11:19:55 BST (773 reads)

 Having now done 2 Progeny->sid sidegrades, it's quite easy. All you need is
the latest Debian unstable sources in your sources.list and nothing else
(well,
non-US, but that's it). Now, type:

# apt-get update
# dpkg --purge --force-deps libfreetype6
# apt-get -f dist-upgrade
You may need to do this a couple of times, but just doing it once worked for
me,
though I've only tried this on two machines. It's quite a good way to
install Debian,
if you hate the installer.
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How much "trouble" might I run into by choosing Unstable rather than
Testing?

Can the same commands be used to update from Testing? (If I did so am I
likely
to end up in the same place ... with no pcmcia functionality?)

Meanwhile I have given up rescuing PCMCIA from the Progeny->Woody update.
Am reinstalling Progeny for the 4th time in a matter of days so may once
again
access my pcmcia nic and ADSL.  Sigh.

With Progeny up I can try whatever command set seems most suitable to the
task of a kernel-woody-pcmcia upgrade that all plays nice together!

Thanks!  Doc