Re: Upgrading from old Sarge (Testing) to Unstable

[kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com>]

Yasir Assam wrote:

> 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

With all the transitions that are taking place right now in unstable, I 
would be very cautious in upgrading to unstable at this moment. However 
if you are brave enough then you can use the above command. It is safe 
in the sense that it will not remove any packages from your system and 
it will not mess up your configuration files etc.,

bye
raju


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