Re: Potato->Woody Upgrade: Removed Package
Patrick Dahiroc <pdahiroc@yahoo.com> writes:
> hi all
>
> i'm considering upgrading my potato box to woody over
> the holidays. i've changed /etc/apt/sources.list to
> point to woody and commented out security. i then ran
> apt-get update and apt-get --simulate dist-upgrade.
> the output of dist-upgrade was a little troubling.
You don't need to comment out the security line. There's even some
packages (like imp and horde) that are about the same version in
stable/testing/unstable so that a when a security update occurs, a
newer version will appear in security a few days before it appears in
woody.
> <-- dist-upgrade OUTPUT -->
> Reading Package Lists...
> Building Dependency Tree...
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> data-dumper gnucash kbd modconf modutils perl-5.005
> sysvinit util-linux
> xcontrib xemacs20-nomule xmailtool xmanpages xpm4g
<snip>
> WARNING: The following essential packages will be
> removed
> This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what
> you are doing!
> sysvinit util-linux (due to sysvinit)
> 421 packages upgraded, 79 newly installed, 13 to
> remove and 2 not upgraded.
> <-- dist-upgrade OUTPUT -->
>
> there is a warning that sysvinit and util-linux will
> be removed. is this to suppose to happen?
No, that's not supposed to happen. Those are both Priority:
Required/Essential: Yes.
I'd try upgrading the important stuff individually first, like dpkg,
apt, debconf, libc6, and whatever else I left out before doing a
dist-upgrade. Or, try dselect and see if it gives a better clue of
why dpkg wants to remove that stuff.
--
Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>
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