Re: stable-->unstable
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 12:33:06AM -0800, ben wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 February 2002 12:45 pm, Rob VanFleet wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 11:22:38PM -0700, debian wrote:
> > > After I edit my sources.list and run: 'apt-get update', what packages am
> > > I supposed to install prior to running: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' ??
> >
> > You shouldn't have to install anything - dist-upgrade will take care of
> > that for you. I would suggest first upgrading from stable to testing,
> > and then from testing to unstable. I find it a much more reliable
> > method than going directly from stable to unstable.
>
> chris watson has, in the past, suggested that the first thing to be upgraded
> are the apt tools because, apparrently, those in potato differ from those in
> woody and sid.
Both I and the release notes normally recommend upgrading dpkg and apt
by hand first, yes.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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