Re: potato->woody upgrade.
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 06:48:53PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> peter@lizardking.dabney.caltech.edu wrote:
> >
> > I decided to upgrade to woody from potato. This was precipitated in part
> > by needing a new modutils; when i tried to manually install the deb from
> > woody, I found that it depended on a newer libc than what I had.
> >
> > Now, I was unable to find anything but the most vague documentation on how
> > to do the upgrade, but what I did was to go through /etc/apt/sources.list
> > and change all instances of "stable" to "woody", then did apt-get update;
> > apt-get dist-upgrade. It wound up upgrading ~100 packages.
> >
> > Then I checked on the version of modutils it installed. Which it didn't: I
> > have version 2.3.11, which is what I had in the first place. I expected
> > 2.3.21, since that's what you see when you go to ftp.debian.org
> > and look in /debian/dists/woody/main/binary-powerpc/base/. However apt and
> > dselect think that everything is up to date. As for libc6, that's sitting
> > where is always was, at version 2.1.3-13, instead of the version that's in
> > the ftp archives (2.2-5).
> >
> > What's going wrong?
>
> There's been a big reorganisation. woody is no longer called unstable (sid is)
> but testing. It's been reverted to the packages from potato and will be filled
> up with packages from unstable which don't have (too many) critical bugs. I
> guess it's again a problem of the PPC autobuilder lagging (if there is even
> any for testing yet?).
Don't think so, i heard the problem is the same on i386.
So testing contains potato, and will be filled with the package from woody
which have been there for more than 2 weeks, isn't it ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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