Re: failing to upgrade sysvinit from Knoppix version
--- David Z Maze <dmaze@debian.org> wrote: > Simon
Tod <todsr1@yahoo.co.uk> writes:
>
> > After a hdd install from knoppix 3.2 I tried to
> dist-upgrade to
> > Debian unstable. It all seems to work fine but my
> debian_version is
> > still reported as testing/unstable.
>
> Isn't that what it's supposed to be? That's
> certainly what it is on
> this sid machine.
>
> > I've tracked this down to the fact that a number
> of packages from
> > the hdd install are not at the latest versions
> available in unstable
> > but are unoffical versions with different
> dependencies. The most
> > significant being sysvinit.
> >
> > If I try 'apt-get install sysvinit', I'm told I
> have the latest
> > version installed. Not true. The knoppix version
> is 2.84 something
> > or other, whereas 2.85 is available in unstable.
>
> Knowing what exactly the version is might be
> helpful. If the Knoppix
> people have added an epoch to their version number,
> APT would be
> entirely correct in concluding that 1:2.84-mumble is
> newer than
> 2.85-7. You might also check that your APT
> sources.list is correct,
> and that you haven't set up funny APT pinning rules.
>
There's nothing wrong with my sources.list, it points
to sid only. I'm not using any apt pinning rules.
The problem is, as you guessed, the epoch number.
Version 2:2.84-161.
So, any ideas? How do I "downgrade" to the more up to
date version in sid?
Thanks.
> ObAreYouSureYouWantToRunUnstable: booting the laptop
> was, um, fun this
> morning, because I didn't have an /sbin/modprobe.
> Funky interactions
> between modutils and module-init-tools I haven't
> finished tracking
> down yet. Nothing in the BTS looks obvious, though.
>
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> David Maze dmaze@debian.org
> http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/
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> should be illegal."
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Simon Tod
todsr1@yahoo.co.uk
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