On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Dave Baker wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Todd Suess wrote: > > > I was brave, I just did apt-get dist-upgrade and waiting about 10 hours > > for it to download everything and upgrade. Have had very little trouble > > with it. > > > > -Todd > > > > ps. for this to work, you of course have to have apt installed and > > a entry in sources.list pointing to an unstable archive. > > > > Having just spent some of the weekend fighting with this, I wonder if I > can throw out a few Qs. > > 1) did you have gnome installed? I had to uninstall practically all of > gnome by hand before apt-get would continue due to dependencies. Nope, I did not have gnome installed. > > 2) did you have emacs installed? same deal as above. Also some conflicts > with bind and dnsutils stepping on each other during the upgrade (had to > uninstall manually, then reinstall after it was done). Yes, emacs was installed, didn't really have any problems with it tho. > > 3) when you add unstable sources in sources.list, do you first remove the > stable ones? I wonder if this could have caused some of my probs. No, my sources.list still has stable and unstable entries, mainly because I was too lazy to remove them, but once I upgraded since it goes by version numbers everything I install now comes from unstable, so I guess I could take the stable portions out, doesn't really matter. > > 4) at what point does your kernel get upgraded to 2.2.x (or 2.3.x)? Mine > is sitting at 2.0.36 still and I'm in the process of using kernel-package > to go to 2.2.12 - I had expected this to be done through the dist-upgrade > but it didn't ... I recompiled my kernel right from 2.0.36 to 2.2.12-3, but I did it after my system was almost completely potato. No problems compiling, and I have compiles several more times since with no trouble. > 5) I had to restart the apt-get dist-upgrade five or six times (or more) > because it kept being killed by packages that didn't install correctly. Interesting, I didn't have a problem with this, but if I did have a package that didn't want to install correctly (such as dependancy overwrite problems, etc) I just made a note of it and used dpkg -i --force overwrite on those. > > My debian install was a fairly fresh 2.1r2 with gnome and kde updates > through apt. Since I had a pretty awful time fighting through it, perhaps > it can be of use to help the old stable -> new stable upgrade process go > smoother for everyone else ... > > -dave > > > -- > | oOOooO / > --| oOobodoO / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --| ooOoOo / > | II / The wise man tells you where you have fallen > | II / and where you may fall - Invaluable secrets. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >