Best route to testing/unstable?
I've got a 2.2 r3 CD, an inet connection.. what's the quickest and pain-free way to get to testing/unstable? TIA Ani
Re: Best route to testing/unstable?
Change apt sources in /etc/apt/sources.list to woody or sid archives, and then run apt-get update and next apt-get upgrade. Best regards, Pawel On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Aniartia wrote: I've got a 2.2 r3 CD, an inet connection.. what's the quickest and pain-free way to get to testing/unstable? TIA Ani -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best route to testing/unstable?
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 07:28:59PM +0200, Pawel Dudek wrote: Change apt sources in /etc/apt/sources.list to woody or sid archives, and then run apt-get update and next apt-get upgrade. Always use 'apt-get dist-upgrade' when upgrading between distributions rather than 'apt-get upgrade'. The latter won't generally make the right decisions. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best route to testing/unstable?
I always use apt-get upgrade. Hm, maybe I've luck that everything going good by this way of upgrade. However, thanks for correct my mistake. Best regards, Pawel On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 07:28:59PM +0200, Pawel Dudek wrote: Change apt sources in /etc/apt/sources.list to woody or sid archives, and then run apt-get update and next apt-get upgrade. Always use 'apt-get dist-upgrade' when upgrading between distributions rather than 'apt-get upgrade'. The latter won't generally make the right decisions. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Best route to testing/unstable?
Actually, dist-upgrade is probably the method of choice for all upgrades once you start using unstable. dist-upgrade tends to resolve dependencies and such that upgrade does not. Since these sorts of things changes (potentially) frequently under unstable it helps keep things running right. --jeh -Original Message- From: Pawel Dudek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 1:51 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Best route to testing/unstable? I always use apt-get upgrade. Hm, maybe I've luck that everything going good by this way of upgrade. However, thanks for correct my mistake. Best regards, Pawel On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 07:28:59PM +0200, Pawel Dudek wrote: Change apt sources in /etc/apt/sources.list to woody or sid archives, and then run apt-get update and next apt-get upgrade. Always use 'apt-get dist-upgrade' when upgrading between distributions rather than 'apt-get upgrade'. The latter won't generally make the right decisions. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best route to testing/unstable?
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 07:51:19PM +0200, Pawel Dudek wrote: On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 07:28:59PM +0200, Pawel Dudek wrote: Change apt sources in /etc/apt/sources.list to woody or sid archives, and then run apt-get update and next apt-get upgrade. Always use 'apt-get dist-upgrade' when upgrading between distributions rather than 'apt-get upgrade'. The latter won't generally make the right decisions. I always use apt-get upgrade. Hm, maybe I've luck that everything going good by this way of upgrade. However, thanks for correct my mistake. While it probably won't break your system, you'll find in the long run that many packages will be held back by 'upgrade', since it will never install new packages nor remove old ones in its attempt to upgrade your system, so it can never follow package rearrangements. See the apt-get(8) man page. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Best route to testing/unstable?
Justin Hahn noted: Actually, dist-upgrade is probably the method of choice for all upgrades once you start using unstable. dist-upgrade tends to resolve dependencies and such that upgrade does not. Since these sorts of things changes (potentially) frequently under unstable it helps keep things running right. --jeh A couple of years ago a debian guru told me that dselect was the safest method of doing a system upgrade. It works for me. YMMV Peace, John _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
Re: Best route to testing/unstable?
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 05:24:45PM +, Aniartia wrote: I've got a 2.2 r3 CD, an inet connection.. what's the quickest and pain-free way to get to testing/unstable? Multi step approach may be a good idea unless you already upgraded apt to woody. 1. edit /etc/apt/souces.list to include stable/security/testing 2. apt-get -u dist-upgrade # I agree with others on this. 3. edit /etc/apt/souces.list to include stable/security/testing/unstable 4. create /etc/apt/preferences with Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 900 Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 600 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 400 5. apt-get install -u -t unstable whateverfromunstablepackage Now you are testing/unstable. Without preference, you tend to run into unstable all the time. Read man apt_preference My web below also list some of my experiences :-) -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://www.aokiconsulting.com/quick/+
