upgrade instruction revision
I have this from Dale:
My contribution to instructions on dselect, although not deeply flawed,
are, none the less flawed enough to remove from the document. (Actually,
replacing all the references to use of the minus (-) key should be
replaced with references to the H key (packages should be put on hold,
not deselected) and replacing the plus (+) key with the 'G' key removes
the flaw. If I can find some time, I will rewrite it myself and put it
out to the list..
Otherwise, just remove the following section:
> USING DSELECT
>
> The primary intent of dselect is to do a full installation. For this to work
> properly you MUST have a complete and clean binary archive. Several packages
> in the free portion of the distribution recommend packages in non-free.
> Without this portion of the tree dselect will die with a partial
> installation. More important than that, this is a BETA release! There may
> still be packages that break during installation from internal errors, or
> because they demand unsatisfiable preconditions (example: libc5-dev-5.2.18-2
> requires libc5 (=5.2.18-2). If you have libc5-5.2.18-4, which should
> function properly, it will not install)
> For the above reasons, I do NOT recommend upgrading via a full installation.
> As it is the most crucial phase, I have focused most of my effort on
> upgrading the base packages. Getting these packages installed properly is
> crucial to the proper operation of your new system. For that reason I
> suggest you do these by hand. However, we are using dselect in this section,
> and it can be forced to do this job. If you have chosen to use dselect you
> do not want to do the base installation by hand because, further dselect
> installation will try, unsuccessfully, to rearrange the base installation. If
> you do the base installation with dselect, further dselect installations
> will proceed more successfully.
>
> INSTALLING THE BASE PACKAGES WITH DSELECT
>
> OK, you have installed the new dpkg. Now run dselect, choose an Access
> method, update the packages list, and choose Select Packages.
> After the intro help screen, you will be presented with the selection
> window. The 'cursor' is over the section; All Packages. The first thing you
> want to do is deselect all packages, so press the '-' (minus) key. The
> screen will switch (with an introductory help screen) to the depends screen.
> Accept these by pressing enter and dselect will return you to the selection
> screen. We have now informed dselect that we are not doing a full install.
> Now, use the arrow keys to move the cursor down the list to "Required Base
> Packages" and press the '+' (plus) key. Again you will end up at a depends
> screen. Dselect will properly identify the two outdated packages (tput and
> last), so you can simply press enter here, returning to the selection
> screen. This completes the selection process and enter will get back to the
> main menu. Select "Install selected packages" and the installation will
> proceed. Refer to the previous sections for information on how to answer the
> con file questions that will arise during this installation.
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