Upgrading from old Sarge (Testing) to Unstable
Hello,
I installed DVDs of Sarge when it was the testing distribution (before
the 3.1 release). Specifically I installed a snapshot dated 30 April
2005. When I installed it the following lines were added to
/etc/apt/sources.list:
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Sarge_ - Official Snapshot i386
Binary-3 (20050430)]/ unstable contrib main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Sarge_ - Official Snapshot i386
Binary-2 (20050430)]/ unstable contrib main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Sarge_ - Official Snapshot i386
Binary-1 (20050430)]/ unstable contrib main
I now have broadband and would like to upgrade to the Unstable dist.
What's the best way of doing this? I added the following line to
sources.list:
deb http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian unstable main contrib non-free
and then did the following:
# apt-get update
Is it safe just to issue the following command?
$ apt-get upgrade
Previously, I compiled my own kernel (using the Debian kernal package
tools) and I also installed an ATI display driver separately. I also
made some changes to various configuration files. Will all that remain
intact if I upgrade?
I'm trying to avoid doing a complete reinstall.
Incidentally, I tried updating a single package (emacs21) and got the
following error:
E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the essential
package e2fsprogs due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This is often
bad, but if you really want to do it, activate the APT::Force-LoopBreak
option.
E: Internal Error, Could not early remove e2fsprogs
I presume this is because I need to do an upgrade?
Thanks,
Yasir
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