Re: How recover from aborted dist-upgrade Stable to Testing (due to apt-listbug bug 585448)

2012-12-15 Thread nv
On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 19:31:52 +1300 Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 03:12:25PM -0600, nv wrote: On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 21:49:53 +0200 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: Hope this helps, Andrei tl;dr: Is it recommended that I

Re: How recover from aborted dist-upgrade Stable to Testing (due to apt-listbug bug 585448)

2012-12-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 03:12:25PM -0600, nv wrote: On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 21:49:53 +0200 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: Hope this helps, Andrei tl;dr: Is it recommended that I use apt-pinning to upgrade some packages to Weird, considering yours was the long post and not

Re: How recover from aborted dist-upgrade Stable to Testing (due to apt-listbug bug 585448)

2012-12-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 12 dec 12, 15:12:25, nv wrote: apt/itude and dpkg should be able to handle interrupted dist-upgrade. However, for such a complex install as yours (didn't read very careful, but I think I spotted Gnome, KDE and e17 at least), I would suggest you do it gradually. Start with

How recover from aborted dist-upgrade Stable to Testing (due to apt-listbug bug 585448)

2012-12-12 Thread nv
Hello, and a giant thank you to everyone working on the Debian system! Seriously, Wikipedia shows Debian estimated to be worth about US$ 8 billion! :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian -++- -++ My conversation level. I am fairly competent, with many things

Re: How recover from aborted dist-upgrade Stable to Testing (due to apt-listbug bug 585448)

2012-12-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 12 dec 12, 12:05:41, nv wrote: The nvidia driver would not compile against it (stupidly whining that it required at least a 2.6 kernel!). Just as a side note, nvidia-glx from backports works fine with the kernel in backports ;) I suspect that I might be able to simply clear some

Re: How recover from aborted dist-upgrade Stable to Testing (due to apt-listbug bug 585448)

2012-12-12 Thread nv
On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 21:49:53 +0200 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Mi, 12 dec 12, 12:05:41, nv wrote: The nvidia driver would not compile against it (stupidly whining that it required at least a 2.6 kernel!). Just as a side note, nvidia-glx from backports works fine

Re: How recover from aborted dist-upgrade Stable to Testing (due to apt-listbug bug 585448)

2012-12-12 Thread Bob Proulx
nv wrote: After so much time wasted researching and feeling out different options, I decided that it was finally time for me to switch to Wheezy (actually, testing). Fine. I did aptitude update, aptitude upgrade, then converted my /etc/apt/sources.list to use 'stable' instead of

Re: How recover from aborted dist-upgrade Stable to Testing (due to apt-listbug bug 585448)

2012-12-12 Thread nv
On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 15:31:04 -0700 Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: nv wrote: After so much time wasted researching and feeling out different options, I decided that it was finally time for me to switch to Wheezy (actually, testing). Fine. Thank you, your response has helped

Re: How recover from aborted dist-upgrade Stable to Testing (due to apt-listbug bug 585448)

2012-12-12 Thread Bob Proulx
nv wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: At this moment Squeeze is still Stable and so there is no difference between the two steps that you did above. No difference. There is actually a real difference, in how updates are handled, in that 'squeeze' would keep me on the Squeeze release even when