-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 19 April 2004 08:35 am, Sarunas wrote: > Sven Hoexter wrote: > | On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 11:59:41AM -0400, Sarunas wrote: > | > | Hi, > | > |>What would be the proper way of upgrading a Debian system (2.4 > |> kernel, sendmail, apache, mysql) from Woody to Sarge? > |> > |>Is editing /etc/apt/sources.list (replacing stable with sarge) and > |>apt-get updating + upgrading supposed to do the job? > | > | Yes it is. Hope you know what you're doing with all consequenzes. > > Thanks. I _hope_ I know. We are using sarge elsewhere (workstations, > test/backup servers), but not on main servers. At some point, when > sarge approaches or turns into stable, we would like to have servers > in sarge too, one reason being changing to 2.6 too, the latter > probably being not an elegant move in woody. The question is whether > it is satisfactory in terms of system consistency to upgrade > (woody->sarge), or maybe it's better to reinstall with sarge from > scratch. > > | Anyway if you would only like to update several packages thing > | about backports(.org). Or make yourself familar with pinning. > > pinning?---any hints? > > Thanks, > Sarunas
I would use the suggestion of changing the sources to point to sarge. 'dist-upgrade' is what you want to use, though I also run dselect afterwards, seems like there are a few obsolete packages left to clean up. No need to reinstall. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux user -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAhAplk7rtxKWZzGsRAnoIAJ0X5jP1BmxEWE3l2/FPrXSza8yuuwCdFQps EEqrd7lrf8pebf2+sJy7G5g= =j01L -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
