Re: How do I find out what version of ebian is on a machine?

1998-01-19 Thread Craig Sanders
I am cc-ing this back to debian-user because it contains information which will be useful to anyone considering an upgrade to hamm. On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Stan Brown wrote: On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Stan Brown wrote: All ths talk of libc5 to libc6 upgrades gotme thnking about upgarding. Since

Re: How do I find out what version of ebian is on a machine?

1998-01-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jan 19, 1998 at 08:44:03PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: 3. Then repeat the Install followed by Configure until dselect reports no problems. It might just be more, or it might just be dpkg-ftp, but I find that if I do install, then install again, it will download again all the

Re: How do I find out what version of ebian is on a machine?

1998-01-19 Thread Paul Huygen
Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about upgrading to libc6: After it [Craig's fine upgrade script] has run, it is still up to you to run dselect and upgrade the rest of the system. this is not an option - once you start upgrading to hamm, you really have to do a complete upgrade...there are

How do I find out what version of ebian is on a machine?

1998-01-18 Thread Stan Brown
All ths talk of libc5 to libc6 upgrades gotme thnking about upgarding. Since it matters at this point in time for upgradeing, how do I determine what version of Debian is on a given machine? Thanks. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How do I find out what version of ebian is on a machine?

1998-01-18 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Stan Brown wrote: All ths talk of libc5 to libc6 upgrades gotme thnking about upgarding. Since it matters at this point in time for upgradeing, how do I determine what version of Debian is on a given machine? cat /etc/debian_version but IMO, it's worthless

Re: How do I find out what version of ebian is on a machine?

1998-01-18 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 08:10:36AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: All ths talk of libc5 to libc6 upgrades gotme thnking about upgarding. Since it matters at this point in time for upgradeing, how do I determine what version of Debian is on a given machine? There is probably no such