Re: dist-upgrade from buster fails badly
On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 12:56:00PM +0000, pioruns2019 wrote:
> Why You want to upgrade from buster to sid? You have enabled both sid
> and buster-updates repositories. This won't work, unless you know what
> you're doing.
> I suggest to install sid from the scratch, if you want to have sid. If
> you don't want to have sid, revert back to buster.
> Also, sid doesn't have debian-security updates, this entry is invalid.
Most of this is correct, except for the part about installing sid
from scratch. That's not a thing. If one wants to run unstable, one
installs the current stable release, and then upgrades to sid.
The probem here is that the OP attempted to mix stable and unstable,
cherry-picking packages from unstable. This WILL NOT WORK. Ever.
If you want to cherry-pick higher-numbered packages from post-stable
on a stable system, use backports. Never install a binary package
from a future release.
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