Re: Potato upgrade and Perl warnings...
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, I used dselect to upgrade because I did not see any
talk about the apt-get upgrade command in time...
My system now seems to have some "issues" I need to work through. I do not receive any
perl warning at this moment, so I think I will concentrate on fixing the warning I am
getting.
Doug
Mirek Kwasniak wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 09:27:06AM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote:
> > I finally decided to try potato because I wanted an easy way of getting
> > the latest postgresql (6.5)...
> >
> > I was running slink and used dselect to upgrade.
> >
> > The biggest problem it seemed to find was a change in perl (DB1.85 ->
> > DB2). It said something about using perl-5.004 to dump the DB1.85
> > databases and then reload perl5.005 or use db_dump185(1) and db_load(1)
> > in libc6...
> >
> > What is this talking about? I only have perl loaded on my system
> > because some other package required it. I am not sure what databases
> > this is talking about. Any ideas?
> >
> > I have seen some references to using "apt" to install programs. Which
> > method is the best for someone who doesn't play with this stuff very
> > often - dselect or apt?
> >
>
> Best solution for upgrading distributions is `apt-get dist-upgrade'
> but not currently!!!
>
> Following suggestions on debian-list I did upgrade from slink to potato last
> night using `apt-get upgrade'.
>
> I had only to hold libmime-base package (new version depends on perl5.005)
> and upgraded with some troubles - four conflicts like:
>
> Unpacking replacement manpages-dev ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/manpages-dev_1.23-1_all.deb (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite /usr/man/man3/btree.3.gz', which is also in package glibc-doc
>
> I solved they by temporary removing of package or by concurrent installing
> `dpkg -i package1 package2'
>
> My `new' system wasn't pure potato distribution because some packages were
> obsolete. I went to dselect and analysed problems. I purged some not needed
> packages.
>
> I did one mistake: xntp3* packages are replaced by ntp*. I marked xntp3 to
> purge and ntp to install. After installing I saw that xntp3 and some other
> packages were only removed not purged. I did `dpkg --purge ...' and
> /etc/ntp.conf went away because it was xntp3 conf-file and ntp hasn't it.
> But I have backup of /etc :)
>
> Mirek
>
> I
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