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Re: potato -> woody on multiple machines



on Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 12:06:29AM +1300, Richard Hector (rhector@actrix.gen.nz) wrote:
> "Karsten M. Self" wrote:
> > 
> > on Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 07:16:09PM +1300, Richard Hector (rhector@actrix.gen.nz) wrote:
> > > After apt-get dis-upgrading one box, am I ok to just tar up
> > > /var/cache/apt/archives and dump it on the other?
> > 
> > Yes.
> > 
> > Run an 'update' after anyway, you should find there's little changed.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> I did that (before I got your reply), but I'm guessing I did something
> (else) wrong, because my system ended up horribly broken. Or at least X
> was. So I backed up /home/richard to another machine and installed woody
> from scratch, from the boot floppies.

There's been some X breakage recently, it seems XF86v4 is better
supported than v3 in testing/unstable these days.

Peace.

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