Am 2007-03-22 06:34:20, schrieb Michael Pobega: > I didn't mean "seemed" in a way that I didn't know. I actually went to > the forums everyday, and there WAS at least three topics about > dist-upgrades breaking going from Dapper to Edgy, or Edgy to Feisty. > Dist-upgrades to break here, but we hear about them maybe once a week. > > I am 100% SURE that Ubuntu's dist-upgrade breaks more often than > Debian's, and I am certain that the number is 75% or so (Give or take > a bit, 75% is an estimation, not a number written into stone). Definitivly right, since I use Debian from 2.1 Slink, over 2.2 Potato to 3.0 Woody up to 3.1 Sarge and now 4.0 Etch. But NOW it broke my purse, since I catched all installed packages on my 28 Computers @home unified the list and downloaded the new Etch Packages.gz and created a new downloadlist with all dependencies! F...!!! Since I live mobile in a Motorcaravan, it is not realy funny to download 500 MByte unneeded Packages and have installed twenty xserver-xorg-video-* installed on a system which had never had an ful xserver since it was a ROUTER or a SERVER which havd only xfree86-common installed... This was the only one I have had problems with dist-upgrade! This can only be prevented by installing a known (!!!) core package. On my workstations this mean seting up /etc/apt/source.list to Etch, make the "apt-get update" and then an apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-mga which installs some dependiencies and break your X for a moment. NOW, you can do the rest with an apt-get dist-upgrade and you will have back a working xserver. UFFF!!!!!!!!!!!! Note: Etch will install by default "xserver-xorg-video-all" which is for MODEM USER and users like me which using GSM (GPRS, EDGE, UMTS) definitivly inacceptable! Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultant -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ ##################### Debian GNU/Linux Consultant ##################### Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 50, rue de Soultz MSN LinuxMichi 0033/6/61925193 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com)
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