Re: Slink broke after upgrade

[Ed Cogburn <ecogburn@greene.xtn.net>]

Mario Bertrand wrote:
> 
> 
> >       With my experience, I don't believe the latest X11 stuff in slink is
> > broken anymore, but its been broken down into a bunch of smaller debs.
> > I scrubbed my system free of all the old X11 stuff (except config files)
> > and loaded the slink X11 suff, and everything is now working.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Ed C.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> Hi,
> 
> What do you mean by old X11 stuff? How do we know wich packages to delete? It
> is those obsoletes packages in dselect menu when we update?
> 


	The old X11 packaging included a 2meg 'xbase' deb file.  This package
has been split into smaller packages.  xterm, for example, is in its own
package.  The font packages changed their name to 'xfonts-###' instead
of 'xfnt###'.
	When I originally went to dselect after the download, the new X11
packages were at the top of the display in the new packages section. 
This was how I could tell them apart from the ones already installed
(plus the version number).  Since there didn't seem to be any dependency
conflicts, ie, 'xfntbase' didn't conflict with 'xfonts-base'*, I decided
to scroll down and purge my system of all the old packages that I could,
except for the /etc/X11 config files.  This probably wasn't necessary.
	I don't know if they will show up in the obsolete section, I never
checked this.  I suspect dpkg would have deleted the old ones first.


	*  A dependency conflict should of happened according to the package
info (Conflicts: xfntbase), but I seem to remember dselect allowing me
to select the new files without popping up a dependency conflict
screen.  My memory has deteriorated, however, so I may be remembering
wrong.


-- 
Ed C.