Re: dist-upgrade from buster fails badly
On Fri 12 Feb 2021 at 08:02:02 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 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.
That's probably the most common way to get sid and what I would
recommend. However, sid may be installed directly from the archives
using the mini.iso.
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Brian.
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