Re: excersize

[Sebastiaan <sebas@sacred-key.org>]

High,

what is wrong with apt? Can you not adapt the sources.list file to the new
distribution and do a apt-get update and then upgrade?

I realize that this is not a real answer to your question, but often it
helps.

Greetz,
Sebastiaan


On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, green_botanik wrote:

> Is it possible to upgrage distrib (slink -> potato, for example :)
> without apt-get or other wrapper, but using just dpkg?
> It look like there is no sufficient control information in dpkg's
> to split / join packages as requied in such upgrade.
> Is there anybody who done such useless exeriment?
> Or someone may give me distinct anwer (with 'because of...' keyword)?
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