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Bug#600600: upgrade-reports: lenny->squeeze and libuuid-perl (and apt-get vs aptitude)



On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 15:47:00 +0100, Stuart Prescott wrote:

> * upgrading aptitude prior to trying this out doesn't help
> 
> * aptitude is capable of doing the right thing here with some prompting:
>   - say "n" at the [Y/n/q/?] prompt to get another solution; the 3rd
>     presented solution is to upgrade perl as well
>   - or, tell aptitude to install perl at the same time as the kernel:
>     aptitude install linux-image-`uname -r | sed  's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,'` perl
> 
> * the release notes for squeeze currently say to use lenny's aptitude to 
>   install the squeeze kernel. That seems to be bad advice (use apt-get instead).
> 
That's likely to be removed from the release notes.  We should have
571255 fixed in squeeze in a couple of days, which will make this step
of the upgrade mostly unnecessary.  And in any case if we're
recommending the use of apt-get for upgrades, this step should use apt
as well.

Cheers,
Julien

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