On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 04:56:36PM -0500, Thomas R. Shemanske wrote:
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.
I agree.
I would suggest to install just "apt" as first package for "apt-get
install". (This automatically pulls libc6 and most key packages but not
to cause mass updates).
Having new apt-get command from woody provides much better control.
See my web page for woody transition.
http://qref.sf.net/quick/ Follow link to the woody upgrade.
This also talks about how to set up /etc/apt/preferences.