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Re: How to upgrade to woody?



Hmm. Maybe I'll try it and see what happens ... this system isn't really
mission critical right now, although it would be kind of a pain to rebuild
it  ...

Jen

----- Original Message -----
From: ben <benfoley@rcn.com>
To: jennyw <jennyw@dangerousideas.com>; <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 6:11 AM
Subject: Re: How to upgrade to woody?


> apparently, any entry referring to stable or potato should be changed to
> testing or woody. i'm about to embark on the same process. be sure to
backup
> your original sources.list.
>
>
>
> On Saturday 17 November 2001 22:02, jennyw wrote:
>
> > > I'm thinking of upgrading my potato (which has a couple packages from
> > unstable) installation to Woody.  I'm a bit scared, since this seems
like a
> > major overhaul and since I've never tried this before. So I was hoping
> > someone could give me an idea of what to expect (like how likely it is
I'm
> > going to have to reinstall from scratch).
> >
> > Do I just change sources.list to include:
> >
> >   deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
> >   deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib
> > non-free
> >
> > Then do:
> >
> >   apt-get update
> >   apt-get dist-upgrade
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Jen
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