Re: apt and dist-upgrade
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 05:29:46AM +0000, Doug MacFarlane wrote:
>
> I just installed a system using the 4 floppies for a compact install (rescue,
> root image, and 2 drivers) and did the rest of the install via the net.
>
> Very nice.
>
> So, I now have a running woody that I want to upgrade to testing.
>
> I did an apt-get -s dist-upgrade, and it then said that
>
> gozer:/home/madmac# apt-get -s dist-upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Calculating Upgrade... Done
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>
> so it wasn't going to do anything . . .
>
> so here's my sourceslist:
>
> gozer:/home/madmac# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
> deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
> gozer:/home/madmac#
>
> and it's still set to stable . . . . (woody)
>
> I thought apt-get dist-upgrade would take you from woody to sarge, or sarge
> to sid, and so on?? I'm obviously missing something here . . . .
>
It will, but you need to replace the instances of "stable" in
sources.list with "testing" or "sarge", then run apt-get update and
apt-get dist-upgrade.
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