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Re: Lenny to Squeeze upgrade problems



On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 04:44:12PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> 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.

Well, I did try to look for release notes, but I did not find any for Squeeze.

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