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Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?




On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:58:35AM -0600, David Bell wrote:

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| Change all references to 'stable' in /etc/apt/sources.list to 'testing'
| and run apt-get update && apt-get -u dist-upgrade.  You're now running
| Woody. :)

Hmmm. Isn't it better to first change the sources list, then upgrade Perl, then upgrade apt, dpkg, etc, and then do a dist-upgrade? Seems I have read that a blanket dist-upgrade from stable to testing is not as seamless as you suggest, but it has been awhile since I looked at this issue.

Ed Lawson






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