Re: Shall I upgrade to Woody?
Hi,
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 09:22:06PM +0200, Sigue wrote:
> I know this is a bit to generic question, and it has been probably
> already discussed a 1000 times, but I'm fairly new, so please forgive
> me if I ask it nevertheless.
Yes. If you ask this question here, answer is NO. (Half joking ...)
What ever other somewhat experienced people say, just do not "upgrade"
to unstable without _fair_ knowledge of Debian Package system.
I recommend you to start with upgrading to "testing" first. With
tesing, you can have partial unstable on demand like:
# apt-get install libc6/unstable.
Read "man apt_preferences" in testing/woody. Once you upgrade to apt in
woody, you can have pckages from unstable while having testing as your
system and can up/down-grade at your finger tip. See my web page on my
sig where I wrote what I do :-)
> 1. Just checking. If I would want to upgrade to Woody, I'd need to add
> 'testing' or 'woody' to the sources.list, and then I'd need to issue
> 'apt-get dist-upgrade'?
Yes. Use following to be safe side:
# apt-get -u dist-upgrade
> 2. Is it possible to somehow delete the package database, and make apt
> reread the official ones from debian.org?
# apt-get update
> 3. Is it possible to go back to the state in dselect before you
> started making selections? I know that i theory 'R' should go back to
> the state before the current selection, but sometimes it seems to get
> stuck in a loop and alway brings me back the same dependency screen.
> Also if I made several selections, but then change my mind and want to
> go back to the state where it was when I've started dselect, is this
> possible?
Yes. (Provided you keep woody at)
> Many,many thanks for your help in advance! best regards, Balazs
No problem :-)
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