Re: Problems after mixing Sarge and Etch
NickDG (<nick.degraeve@gmail.com>) wrote:
> I inherited from my long gone predecessor the administration of an old
> server running Sarge. It is used for Bugzilla and Mantis and partly as
> webserver.
> I'm not very familiar with Debian, I'm a Mandriva man myself, but I'm
> the only one in the company left that has Linux experience. To keep
> the system up-to-date I do a "aptitude update && aptitude upgrade -y"
> each time I get a Security Advisory email .
> I think it was last week there were a whole bunch of packages that
> where held back. After some surfing I concluded that I had to do a
> "aptitude dist-upgrade" and indeed almost all packages could now be
> installed. Only a few weren't:
>
> [...]
> deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib
> deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian sarge main contrib
>
> Yep, there's my problem (I guess): I've mixed Sarge with stable and
> stable is now Etch.
>
>
> So finally my questions:
>
> How can I salvage my system?
> Will replacing stable with sarge in the sources.list and do a
> "aptitude update" and "aptitude upgrade" (or "aptitude dist-upgrade")
> solve my problems?
Probably not, if you already have packages from Etch installed. In that
case you would have to downgrade them, but downgrading is tricky and
not officially supported. I recommend you upgrade to Etch instead.
Don't forget to take a look at the Etch release notes first!
regards
Andreas Janssen
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