Re: Really annoying.
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 10:38:03PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote:
>
> But I would not recommend people new to GNU/Linux to run Sid. I still
> only have less than a year's experience. It's only been a couple of
> months since I formatted my ntfs partition.
>
> Tomorrow my Etch is going to turn into Sid. I let you know how it does.
> Worst case scenario I can reinstall Etch.
>
Do this in four stages:
Change /etc/apt/sources.list to reference lenny
aptitude update ; aptitude dist-upgrade ; aptitude install -sf ;
aptitude keep all
Change /etc/apt/sources.list to reference sid
aptitude update ; aptitude dist-upgrade ; aptitude install -sf ;
aptitude keep all
Skipping direct from Etch -> Sid is not necessarily supported.
If you break up the long lines for aptitude into their component parts,
you may have more luck resolving problems / missing packages as you go.
[apt-get / dselect would also work with more or less the same degree of
success.]
> I accept your challenge.
>
Be prepared to accept significant amounts of package churn from
time to time.
If you need to revert from Sid -> Lenny, one of the easiest ways is
just to not update for a significant period, say a month - allowing
packages from Sid to percolate gradually to Etch over a period of time -
then change the /etc/apt/sources.list and dist-upgrade with Etch. With luck,
very little will need to be changed/downgraded.
Testing -> stable downgrades are not necessarily very easy and are not
readily supported or supportable: success depends very much on which
packages and how many packages you have installed.
> Joe
Andy
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