On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 10:02:29PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 08:32:38AM -0600, Steve Block wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 09:56:37AM +0800, linux china wrote: > > >Yes, My system is woody, 3.0 r4. could I apt-get upgrade, then system will > > >be at the same level as sarge? and I could install mysql 5.0 from backport, > > >I not very sure. > > > > You could upgrade to sarge from woody, but I can't tell you that you > > _should_ do so. There's always the possibility of breaking something. If > > you do decide to make the upgrade, the general recommendations I gleaned > > from this list when sarge was released as stable follow: > > > > Install aptitude, if you haven't. Change your /etc/apt/sources.list to > > point to stable or sarge rather than woody. Update your package list > > with aptitude update, and then attempt the system upgrade with aptitude > > dist-upgrade. You could use apt-get as well, but my understanding was > > that aptitude was better at resolving the sort of dependency issues you > > can get into during a system upgrade. > > It might be better to: > get Woody up to date > change sources.list to point to Sarge,
oops, should use aptitude from Sarge, so apt-get update then > apt-get install aptitude > aptitude update > aptitude upgrade > aptitude dist-upgrade > > If on a production server, plan an outage window! -- Chris. ====== Reproduction if desired may be handled locally. -- rfc3 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]