Re: upgrading in sid

[charlie derr <cderr@simons-rock.edu>]

Thanks again for explaining everything.

After continuing through a few more upgrades (actually, I got the word that I should now be using "safe-upgrade", so was using 
that when I remembered), I'm now almost fully up to date (kde wants to uninstall itself when I try to upgrade kdebase, so I'm 
putting that off for a week or so to see if it works better after available packages are built on the other end).  I really 
appreciate all the assistance,

	~c




Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 09:09:53AM -0500, charlie derr <cderr@simons-rock.edu> was heard to say:
> > aptitude-create-state-bundle  doesn't apparently exist on my system -- was 
> > this a relatively recent addition to aptitude?  (it may have been a year or 
> > slightly longer since I've upgraded aptitude)
>
>   Yes, it was added in version 0.4.6.  All it really does is make a
> compressed archive of the following files/directories:
>
>   /var/lib/aptitude
>   /var/lib/apt
>   /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin
>   /var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin
>   /etc/apt
>   /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
>   ...but I find it's easier to tell people to run it than to tell them
> to make a compressed archive of a half-dozen cryptically named items. :)
>
>   Daniel