Re: unstable, just how unstable is it
Cheryl Homiak <chomiak@chartermi.net> writes:
> Well, be careful if you are trying to upgrade from testing to unstable.
> I tried it last night and got stuck in some kind of conflict between coreutils
> and fileutils, where you were somehow going to have to temporarily remove
> fileutils because of the conflict.
> I decided to stick with testing from now, but
> not before I lost some stuff on my system--that was my own fault for a choice I
> made, didn't just automatically happen in the attempt to upgrade. am still
> fineding out packages I removed by the bad decision I made. anyway, if you get
> stuck with a problem during the upgrade, look very carefully at your options
> before you do anything.
> It's the first time i ever really had a serious problem doing an upgrade between
> stable, testing and unstable, and I've done it several times. but one should
> never become too complacent, especially when dealing with an upgrade to
> unstable.
I had the problem. Since the installation process got the error before
installing anything, I left it there.
24 hours later, I retried and it worked without any problems. Thanks
to the debian team for the fast work.
Cheers
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Dominique_Dumont@grenoble.hp.com
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