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



On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 05:55:59PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> 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.

There's still good reason to document in the release notes the issues
surrounding udev, given that the default upgrade path will now allow you to
put your system in a state where a mid-upgrade reboot (intended or not) may
fail to bring up your network.  We just may decide not to explicitly
document an 'apt-get' command here.

>  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.

In the interim, I've updated the release notes draft to reference apt-get
here - the more we can minimize these issues at this critical time for
upgrade tests, the better we'll be able to make squeeze in the end.

Cheers,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                    http://www.debian.org/
slangasek@ubuntu.com                                     vorlon@debian.org

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