[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I've been slowly upgrading my packages from slink to potato, and > > frankly, have never had a single problem. > > How are you doing this? Do you just go get the packages and 'dpkg -i' them > or do you use apt? There are a bunch of things I want to upgrade on my > system but I assumed that all of the potato packages would have dependencies > to library versions I don't have and that updating my libraries would > break slink packages that I do have.
No, I just do it the normal way, with dselect. I put all of my packages on `hold' (with the `=' key, which seems to mark everything in a section if you do it on the section header), added the unstable distributions to my sources.list (I use the apt dselect backend) file, and then whenever I want to upgrade something, I just use dselect, which tells me of any repercussions that might follow. One of the first things I upgraded was glibc, to version 2.1, which may have made subsequent changes easier (that change, BTW, was also absolutely painless). It might be nice if there were a `put everything on hold' command, or even multiple `named holds' (so you could put things on hold for different reasons simultaneously, and more easily manipulate sets of holds). -Miles -- Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra. Suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night the ice weasels come. --Nietzsche