Re: Safest way to upgrade Sid after long interval?
On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:51:05 +0200
"Hans-J. Ullrich" <hans.ullrich@loop.de> wrote:
>
> > Has anyone any experience of doing something like this? Best way to
> > go about things?
> >
> > Anthony
>
> I made best experience with apt-get upgrade, then after it, apt-get
> dist- upgrade.
>
> This worked better than the alternative: aptitude safe-upgrade after
> it aptitude full-upgrade. However for short or long I suggest to
> change to aptitude, as the dependencies are better made.
>
Yes, I'd agree, I recently upgraded a laptop which doesn't normally run
sid, but I needed it for one particular job. I don't know how long it
had been left alone, but it might easily have been a year or more.
I normally use aptitude, so I did a safe- then a full-upgrade,
expecting problems, but there weren't any at either stage. I rebooted
between, as there would have been a kernel change at the first step.
No special precautions, as it was basically a spare operating system, I
could reinstall without losing anything. You might want to be a bit
more careful.
--
Joe
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