On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 01:33:08AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Tuesday 17 May 2005 00:56, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > > On Monday, 16 May 2005, you wrote: > > > Try to first change your sources.list to sarge, > > > apt-get update > > > apt-get install aptitude > > > and then > > > aptitude dist-upgrade. > > > > > > aptitude is a C++ program and support for C++ in hppa-woody is, hum, > > > limited (e.g. no exception support). > > > > I will add this to the release notes. > Looking also at the discussion today on d-devel, I think the general > procedure advised in the release notes should be as follows: > - Make sure sources.list points to woody > - apt-get update > - apt-get install aptitude > - Change sources.list to point to sarge > - apt-get update > - aptitude install aptitude dpkg > - aptitude -f --with-recommends dist-upgrade > This means that for hppa only an extra note would have to be added near > the second 'apt-get update' that using aptitude there may cause a > segfault. (I've also seen 'aptitude update' fail on i386 when Woody's > version is used.) It has previously indicated that the sarge version of aptitude gives marginally better behavior, on all architectures, than the woody version; and therefore we had discussed including 'apt-get install aptitude' after pointing sources.list at sarge as a step for all upgrades. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature