On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: > > 7) Safe inter-dist upgrades, rexx-slink, bo-slink, hamm-slink and others > > As well as making dselect safer to use for these upgrades should you > > choose to go that way (not recommended!) > > Why are you saying not recommended? Are you saying that using the > "apt" method in dselect is not recommended -- or just saying that > doing a full upgrade using dselect is not recommended?
Dselect can ask APT to remove libc5 and install libc6 and apt will quite happily try with a large warning. Unfortunately the only way to do that destroys your system :> It is best to do a 'dist-upgrade' first to advoid any such problem and then use dselect to fine tune things. This is detailed in the installed notes Jason