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Re: Can't upgrade from slink to woody!



On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 08:41:37PM +0000, Pigeon wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 23:30:34 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > Just guessing, but maybe it's segfaulting because some data or other
> > has changed format and is barfing apt.  Thus, "old data" may not
> > cause the problems?
> >
> > Also, maybe it would just be best to do a fresh install, and promise
> > yourself that you'll never get so far behind again?
> 
> Possibly... it handles my single slink CD OK.
> 
> I tried upgrading apt first, but of course it required me to upgrade
> the @$?% C libraries... which breaks every other piece of software on
> the system...

I'm confused ... how does upgrading libc6 break everything else? (It
doesn't.) You may have to upgrade a few other core packages, but not
many.

> So I took a deep breath, hid my existing system in a /oldstuff
> directory, and installed woody afresh... pretty smooth, congrats to
> the Debian team.

Oh well, glad this worked at least. :)

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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