Re: essential packages getting deleted when switching to testing libc6

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 01/14/09 22:54, Stephen Dewey wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> > > I am having trouble with the libfaac0 package, and have been hoping to
> > > upgrade it the hope that a bug fix has been released for my problem.
> > > The libfaac0 package requires libc6 >= 2.7-1 but etch only has
> > > 2.3.6.ds1-13etch8, so I've added a testing distribution to my sources
> > > list.
> > [snip]
> > > Any ideas?
> > Sure.  Don't mix Stable and Testing.  This close to Stable becoming
> > Oldstable, Etch and Lenny have very different dependencies.
>
> Ok. I am OK with moving to Lenny. Would it then be OK for me to simply
> upgrade to Lenny via the below?
>
> apt-get update
> apt-get -t stable upgrade
> apt-get -t stable dist-upgrade
> apt-get -t testing upgrade
> apt-get -t testing dist-upgrade
>
> (I am getting this from
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-woody.en.html   - I
> assume based on my reading of the apt_preferences 5 man page that this
> will move me in the correct order.)

You'll have to modify your sources.list first, replacing "etch" or 
"stable" with "lenny".

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
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