On Tuesday 17 May 2005 01:55, Steve Langasek wrote: > > - 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. That *is* what we do with this procedure. - First we make sure Woody's aptitude is installed - Then we use Woody's aptitude (instead of apt-get) to upgrade all packaging tools to Sarge (for reasons see thread on d-devel) - Then we use Sarge's aptitude to do the actual dist-upgrade Cheers, FJP
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