On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 05:20:44PM -0500, Levi Waldron wrote: > I'm running Woody right now, but am tempted to dselect-upgrade KDE to the > 3.10 in unstable (because of the improvements to kmail). Any thoughts > on the potential pain/painlessness of this upgrade, before I try it? If > there's a fair chance of having to spend a lot of time fixing a broken > system, I'll just wait for it to arrive in testing.
I ran a dist-upgrade to unstable a couple of weeks ago and it went pretty smoothly, but YMMV. I've found that you stand less of a chance of things going wrong with a small number of packages to start with and then installing them once you're fully in unstable. My starting stable setup consisted of base, C/C++ dev, X and blackbox. I usually take the machine from stable to testing, then testing to unstable. Last I checked some KDE packages in unstable were uninstallable, but by grabbing individual packages I got everything I needed. In other words, trying to install the 'kde' metapackage failed, but installing kdebase, the browing throug the results of 'apt-cache search kde | less' I managed to get everything else. KDE3.1 seems to be in a pretty nice working state in unstable at the moment. That being said, you'll probably run into a few false starts during the dist-upgrade - few conflicting packages that need to be tweaked manually or temporarily removed with dpkg (sometimes using some sort of --force). Once you get the hang of it, unstable transitions aren't so bad, but having a small amont of packages to upgrade as well as some experience "massaging" the packages to get out of dist-upgrade problems (most of the time a --fix-missing will do the trick) helps. So if I haven't given you enough mixed messages, just do it when you have some time on your hands, and if your system is at all "mission critical" - don't do it at all. Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]