James Martino said: > Bruce was asking for upgrade stories - here's a data point.
Here's another: I updated from debian 1.1.17 (the latest, I believe). I experienced the following problems: 1) perl installation failed. It pre-depends on libdl1, which is provided by ldso, but dselect complained that it couldn't resolve the pre-dependancy. I installed ldso by hand using dpkg, then re-ran dselect and the problem was fixed. 2) somewhere along the line, /bin/perl got deleted, and I got an error out of one of the preinst scripts. Somewhere further along the line, /bin/perl got put back. Unfortunately, I didn't catch which packages were involved. 3) gcc depends on cpp (different from Debian 1.1). However, when dselect installed cpp, it removed gcc, and I had to re-tag gcc for installtion (a second installation run fixed the problem). 4) there are two copies of xbase (1.1 and 1a). This didn't cause a problem, it just wasted time. 5) sendmail doesn't work. I had to reinstall the binaries from 8.7.6-1. The problem was that sendmail could parse the .cf file properly (complaining about the 'dequote' map -- saying file doesn't exist). 6) libg++ and libg++-dev conflicted with each other for some reason. Re-running the installtion from dselect cleared up the problem. Aside from the above problems (which I easily solved, but which a less experienced user may have had trouble with), the upgrade went very well, and I'm now a happy debian-1.2 user. -- Scott Barker Linux Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~barkers/ (under construction) [ I try to reply to all e-mail within 3 days. If you don't ] [ get a response by then, I probably didn't get your e-mail. ] [ Unsolicited commercial and junk e-mail will be proof-read for US$100 ] "The last time somebody said, `I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, `They used to say the same thing about drugs.' - Roy Blount, Jr. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]