Re: General Update Hints Potato->Woody

["Thomas R. Shemanske" <trs@hecke.dartmouth.edu>]

Check out http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/, in particular the 
release notes.

In addition, there are somewhat general rules (which others on the list 
will no doubt improve upon):

Change your sources.list to point to woody (realizing you may actually 
have to pull a few things from sid which may have been removed from 
woody due to RC bugs)

apt-get update

Then upgrade apt apt-utils dpkg debconf perl as a start before thinking 
about a general upgrade

Try apt-get -s -u dist-upgrade |less to see what is going to happen.  If 
 it looks like you will remove a zillion packages, try to find out why 
first.

For example, apt-get -s -u install libc6 might be a good move, and so on.

Feel free to post your intermediate results.

Luck!

TRS

Holger Rauch wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Is there something like a "upgrade HOWTO" describing upgrading
> Potato->Woody in more detail? If so, pointers are most welcome.
>
> Is it "safe" to upgrade to Woody/testing at present or may it leave the
> system unusable?
>
> Thanks for any hints!
>
> Greetings,
>
> 	Holger