Package: upgrade-reports Severity: important Hi,
I did an upgrade from sarge to etch recently, and had some comments about it. I followed the draft release notes as available on: http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/releasenotes I first tried a "aptitude dist-upgrade", and then get something that looked like #396496, so it's probably that. So then I tried upgrading aptitude, as suggested in 4.4.2 with "aptitude install aptitude", at which point I noticed things like my kernels getting removed, as #396331 shows. This removed alot of packages, and I'm not sure which of those are normal. But this included a large part of gnome, things like udev, I think debtags-edit also got removed at that point. My setup might be a little unusual. I already backports things from etch to sarge so that I could run the 2.6.18 kernel. This included things like yaird. If my memory is any good, I had to build alot of the build dependencies for that. This started as as an installation with atleast the desktop task installed. But I alteast removed the gnome meta package because it pulls in some package I don't: portmap and fam. I probably used apt-get to remove it, and not aptitude. I assume this might explain why aptitude now removed large parts of gnome. After that, I used: "aptitude -f --with-recommends dist-upgrade", like 4.4.3 says. This atleast prompts me twice with the questions if I want to accept that solution, and wether I want to use unauthenticated packages. The later is hard to see, since it's already scroll off the screen, and can't scroll back enough. The upgrade instructions should probably suggest an aptitude update between the install and the dist-upgrade. The dist-upgrade left about 120 at the current version, it also removed even more gnome package. After the first dist-upgrade was done, I had to do an other dist-upgrade, which did the rest of the packages. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]