Re: to woody from potato, some advices...
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 07:10:30AM -0500, Bob Thibodeau wrote:
> In my experience, apt-get knows to set up the next versions packaging
> tools first, even in a full dist-upgrade. Has someone actually gotten
> burnt by this (lately)?
Remember WOODY is still in testing phase. So safety precaution such as
Colin propose and I do is a good idea.
Some packages has not made it to testing and sitting in unstable. If
you blindly do dist-upgrade to testing on a machine with many packages,
you my experience problems. With old version of APT, your options to
solve issues are limited. So upgrading dpkg and apt is a good thing
to do as the first measure. Last time I did this, perl and libc also
upgraded. This action does not upgrade X sub system so possible
problems are limited.
Once WOODY become released, I agree dist-upgrade should work flawlessly.
But why you want to make possible issues larger? Once you upgrade APT,
you can use /etc/apt/preferences which allow mixing unstable and testing
in a controlled fashion.
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