Re: Testing upgrade and consequences
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 11:25:26PM +0000, Martin WHEELER wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Joey Hess wrote:
...
> > And things broke. This is a suprise?
>
> Yes.
> Shouldn't it be? Please explain.
> (This is the method I have used to incrementally upgrade my installation
> for the past two years -- without problem.)
> Why should I expect things to break using this method?
> [This is a genuine query. Don't understand your stance. Really.]
If it isn't labelled "stable", things may break. If you try to updgrade
the whole distribution plus a bunch of 3rd party software to an unstable
snapshot of a not-yet-released distro... well, _I_ would expect things
to break. All of them. So yes, you should expect thing to break in
these circumstances.
I was fortunate: I had a clean box so I could load up minimal potato,
upgrade to testing and then install the stuff I need. That was painless.
> But I doubt whether any developer could reproduce this system exactly
> without an accurate image of my machine state; so I'll start with the
> big problem (apache) and try to send in a fuller description of all the
> problems encountered once I've sussed how to do 'proper' bug reports,
> and where to send them.
FWIW, purging apache-perl and installing apache and mod-perl fixed that
for me.
Dima
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