On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 07:08:54PM +0100, Ruud de Bruin wrote: Hi Ruud, > Is it possible to upgrade Hamm 2.0 to Slink 2.1 or Hamm 2.1 (when > available) with apt-get? yes
> > The reason I ask is that several packages in Slink are new/splitted up > like xserver-common. Because these packages were not present in Hamm 2.0, > will apt-get take these new .deb files also in account? no some packages are not update via apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade In my upgrading session from hamm to slink only the following packages I had to postinstall with apt-get: ii xmodmap 3.3.2.3a-8 ii xterm 3.3.2.3a-8 ii xfonts-100dpi 3.3.2.3a-8.1 ii xfonts-75dpi 3.3.2.3a-8.1 ii xfonts-base 3.3.2.3a-8.1 ii xfonts-pex 3.3.2.3a-8.1 ii xfonts-scalable 3.3.2.3a-8.1 All other apt - get automatically and installing and configuring also automatically, some questions have to answered and after a while the slink is setting up completeley and running like the hamm. I also have installed the kernel 2.0.36, isdnutils, some sound-stuff(awe-drv, awe-midi) and kernel-package from potato which where not touched or downgraded, so in my opinion it's a save method to upgrade. -- Peter
