Re: smooth upgrades
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 23:08, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 05:19:51PM -0800, tom arnall wrote:
> > > > i replaced 'testing' with 'etch' today and haven't used apt-get
> > > > since.
> > > >
> > > > how do i tell which version (testing/stable) i'm running?
> > >
> > > you'll have to check the version numbers of a few things. I don't know
> > > how apt behaves if you don't specify a default distribution when there
> > > are multiple sources. for example, I have my apt_preferences set for
> > > "sid" on this machine as follows:
> > >
> > > APT::Default-Release "sid";
> > >
> > > on another machine I have it set in apt.conf, which is probably
> > > wrong.
> > >
> > > regardless, what is your version of libc6? that's probably the best
> > > indicator at this point. one of my etch boxes is running
> > >
> > > dpkg -l | grep libc6
> > > ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C
> > > Library: Shared libraries
> > > ii libc6-dev 2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C
> > > Library: Development Libraries and Hea
> > > ii libc6-i686 2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C
> > > Library: Shared libraries [i686 optimi
> > >
> > > stable is currently, per packages.debian.org, 2.3.2
> > >
> > > so figure out which you're running and that will clue you in to what
> > > to do.
> >
> > debian:/etc/apt# dpkg -l |grep libc6
> > ii libc6 2.3.6-7 GNU C
> > Library: Shared libraries
> > ii libc6-dev 2.3.6-7 GNU C
> > Library: Development Libraries and Header
> > debian:/etc/apt#
> >
> > does this mean i'm running etch?
>
> sounds like you're somewhere between sarge and etch. Etch is running
> 2.3.6.ds1-8 and sid is up to 2.3.6.ds1-10. But sarge is at 2.3.2 so
> you're definitely mostly etch.
>
> when did you last upgrade?
>
> I've lost track ofthis thread. what were we discussing?
>
> A
Andrew,
thanks for getting back to me. the thread started by my asking if there was a
way to upgrade without breaking my system. i had recently upgraded and messed
up gaim and a few other things. the profile edit for gnome-terminal is still
not right. from my original discussion there grew a general discussion of
relating to the repositories.
tom
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