On Fri, Jan 16, 1998 at 03:15:14PM -0700, Paul Rightley wrote: > Yes, I understand very well NOW that there are no hamm disks yet. > My point was that this upgrade of Debian is really expecting a lot > of "typical Debian users." At first glance, I thought that > disks under dists/unstable/main/disks-i386 would actually belong > to the unstable distribution. It is such slight perception that can > really make things difficult for most users. For instance, Scott > Ellis' Mini-HOWTO is very good - I followed all of the portions > of it that called out specific packages and that didn't seem like > "suggestions" (as opposed to "necessary steps"). In this case, > I did not upgrade libgdm1 and perl and due to another (slight) > circumstance, was left with an unusable system after I launched > dselect.
Did you ever use --force-blah with dpkg? Was it ever possible to hose your system without using --force-blah? I upgraded my system before Scott's HOWTO was written; at that stage it was fairly simple and all the dependencies seemed to prevent me from doing anything wrong. IIRC, it was basically a case of installing new ld.so, removing the libc5 -dev libraries, installing libc6, installing the hamm non-g libraries, then installing the hamm g libraries, then anything else, like bash. For a while I only upgraded the libraries (just to support running new libc6 stuff from hamm), not bothering with existing packages. Never any sign of trouble. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .