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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