Re: upgrading from 0.93R6 to 1.1 beta

[Rob Browning <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>]

>>>>> "I" == Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> writes:

I> I don't know if dftp (or dpkg-ftp for that matter) support
I> dependencies and/or pre-dependencies (the latter are required for a
I> smooth upgrade to the ELF system).

The current dftp doesn't (I haven't used dpkg-ftp).  Currently dftp's
better for incremental upgrades (or getting all the new packages so
you can do it by hand with dpkg), rather than a complete overhaul.

If dpkg supported something like dpkg --dependencies foo.deb (does
it?) then it would be fairly easy to handle the simple cases of
package install reordering.

--
Rob