On Monday 15 November 2004 06:52 am, Frans Pop wrote: > Steps > ===== > 1. Install Woody's aptitude > > ==> This is not described correctly in Release Notes. Not sure where the release notes are; no comment. > 2. Mark all libs and some other packages as "automatically installed" > 3. Change sources.list to point to Sarge > 4. Set debconf frontend to "readline" and start 'script' > - Hmmm. I later discovered that this does not show the old choices > and default values for questions. > 5. Run 'aptitude update' -> FAILS > Run 'apt-get update' -> SUCCESS > > ISSUE 1: 'aptitude update' fails, but 'apt-get update' has no problems > Aptitude fails with (see also typescript): > W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.nl.debian.org sarge/main > Packages > (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.nl.debian.org_debian_dists_sarge_main_binary-i386_P >ackages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: You may want to update the package lists to correct these missing files This is a bug in the woody version of aptitude that has been fixed in sarge. (although the sarge version still spews those messages) Just using "apt-get update" should work. > ==> This needs to be fixed or changed in Release Notes. > > 7. Update dpkg and aptitude to Sarge with 'aptitude install dpkg aptitude' > - This also upgrades libc It has to, and it should do that automatically. > - Installing only dpkg or aptitude is not enough (aptitude will pull in > apt and apt-get) It has to, and it should do that automatically. > - Why is dselect shown as a NEW package (it was installed) dselect used to be in the dpkg package, but was split into a separate package after the release of woody. > 8. I don't really like the suggestion to run aptitude with --with-suggests, > so I decided to just run aptitude and select my packages manually there. Who has been promoting the use of --with-suggests?? Not only is that option a Bad Idea, it has been removed in the sarge version of aptitude (so if you upgrade aptitude first, that command will fail). The -v option will list suggested packages, but I would bet this would result in an unreadable dump of garbage to the screen if you're upgrading the whole system. Daniel -- /------------------- Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> ------------------\ | "But what *does* kill me bloody well leaves me dead!" | | -- Terry Pratchett, _Carpe Jugulum_ | \---------------- The Turtle Moves! -- http://www.lspace.org ---------------/
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