On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 07:58, Ed Lawson wrote: > > >On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:58:35AM -0600, David Bell wrote: > > > >| > >| 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 This was posted by Dwarf on the devel list. Slighty edited for brevity. http://www.polaris.net/~dwarf/ snip 2. Before doing the upgrade, but after an 'apt-get update', first do: apt-get install apt dpkg apt-utils Lots of stuff gets removed at this stage, probably because of dependencies on libraries that have to be upgraded for apt and dpkg. Best I can tell, these all get "repaired" later in the upgrade. I've added apt-utils to this pre-upgrade list because debconf complains that it isn't installed otherwise, and fails to do its thing. 3. Now an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' is possible, but when the smoke clears it is still necessary to do 'apt-get -f install' to clean up some minor messes. 4. snip Second: For obvious reasons, xserver-svga is upgraded, but xserver-xfree86 is not installed. This is expected and easy to deal with. This pretty much describes a couple of my upgrades. -- Greg C. Madden Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
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