Re: (Mishap?) upgrading from Woody to Etch
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 06:38:59AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> was heard to say:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 04:51:25AM -0700, Adam Hardy (debian) wrote:
> > If I put 'sarge' in all the sources.list urls, I should be able to upgrade
> > to sarge OK? Or is it too late?
>
> you should read the release notes for sarge first:
>
> http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html
>
> and you might need to use "oldstable" as the identifier in
> sources.list. But yes, you should be able to upgrade to sarge. Once
> you're in the think of it, you might want to take the next step and
> move up to etch since it may go to old stable in the next few
> months. Then when that happens, you can move up to lenny when it's
> fairly fresh. At that point, you can let it go for another 5 years or
> so... ;-)
You can use "sarge" in sources.list. If you use "oldstable" you'll be
rudely upgraded to etch when lenny is released. ;-)
Daniel
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