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Re: Lenny to Squeeze upgrade problems



On Wednesday 12 May 2010 16:27:08 Nick Douma wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 04:24:05PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On 05/12/2010 04:16 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> >> On Wednesday 12 May 2010 16:04:07 Jordan Metzmeier wrote:
> >>> This issue is because the new udev requires a>  .31 kernel with
> >>> sysrq_deprecated=n (I am going off memory here so don't quote me). This
> >>> means you need to first upgrade to the squeeze kernel, reboot, then
> >>> upgrade udev and proceed with the "updgrade".
> >>
> >> Added Tag: needs-to-be-in-release-notes
> >
> > To heck with the Release Notes!  This needs to be front and center when
> > you when you do the "apt-get update".
> 
> It does appear when you do the aptitude full-upgrade, but it doesn't block
>  the output, it just shoots by.
> 
> I do wonder how they will handle this when squeeze gets stable. The whole
>  update your kernel, reboot, update the rest is a bit too easy to fuck up
>  for my taste. I completely assumed that I could just change the apt
>  sources.list and do the full-upgrade.

You should *always* read the release notes first.  It is actually rather rare 
that a release just needs an 'aptitude full-upgrade'.  Usually, perl, apt, 
aptitude, or dpkg should be updated first.

In this case, we need a kernel upgrade followed by a reboot.  It's not nice, 
especially since I think that will make this upgrade a two-reboot process 
instead of the "normal" one-reboot process.

Hopefully, this will get addressed in the udev packaging -- *most* of the time 
programs are required to support running on the previous release's kernel for 
specifically this reason.
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