Maintaining woody/sid mixtures
First, thanks to everyone who helped me get started.
I'm using the /etc/apt/preferences file and I'm now
able to keep my woody installation without having
dselect constantly want to uninstall my KDE2.2 and
Koffice.
However, I'm still having troubles with dselect. Even
though I used apt-get to install the sid elements that
I wanted, apparently there are some conflicts that
apt-get didn't see.
apt-get upgrade, apt-get -f install, apt-get check and
dpkg -C all come up fine. No problems found.
But dselect still wants to uninstall a lot of my kde
development tools, aparently claiming there is a
conflict.
Now, I have found (and solved) several of the
conflicts that dselect has pointed out--installing a
growing portion of Sid. But after spending several
hours, It is still giving me trouble.
So, I have two questions.
1: Why does dselect detect problems that the other
tools ignore? Can I safely ignore these problems
myself (I can't find any more conflicts--but dselect
insists on changing my selections. Should I just use Q
to override?)
2: Is this worth my time. I'd like to stick with
woody, becuse it has (at least partially) been tested.
But it is sure tempting to just upgrade everyting to
Sid. I'm worried that, even if I do fix the current
conflicts. future apt-get upgrades will cause other
things to break. Should I stick to only one (woody or
sid) or is it possible to mix and match?
As an unrelated third question, what's the best way to
upgrade the kernel? I would like to move to a 2.4
kernel if possible. I thought the dist-upgrade to
woody would take care of that, but it looks like I've
still got 2.2.
Thanks,
-Rich-
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