Re: upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-29 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Robert Funnell wrote: On Tue, 28 May 2002, Adam C Powell IV wrote: edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point to woody, and do apt-get dist-upgrade This usually works great, but for an upgrade of this magnitude (between releases), I'd strongly recommend dselect or another tool with interactive

Re: upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-29 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Robert Funnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 28 May 2002, Adam C Powell IV wrote: edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point to woody, and do apt-get dist-upgrade This usually works great, but for an upgrade of this magnitude (between releases), I'd strongly recommend dselect or

Re: upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-29 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Ted Goodridge, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The woody alpha install images have that nasty loop bug with the base pkg. Ted Still? Sid/unstable too? You can install till your in that loop and then replace the faulty deb with a newer one. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-29 Thread Falk Hueffner
Goswin Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ted Goodridge, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The woody alpha install images have that nasty loop bug with the base pkg. Ted Still? Sid/unstable too? You can install till your in that loop and then replace the faulty deb with a newer one.

Re: upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-29 Thread Rob Byrnes
At 10:16 30/05/2002, Falk Hueffner sent this up the stick: Goswin Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ted Goodridge, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The woody alpha install images have that nasty loop bug with the base pkg. Ted Still? Sid/unstable too? You can install till your in that

upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-28 Thread Ted Goodridge, Jr
I know this has been asked before, but what are , in general terms, the way of upgrading an entire system to woody? I have to install stable first (on an alpha...due to woody install glitches), and need help finding documentation on how to do it. Ted -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-28 Thread Falk Hueffner
Ted Goodridge, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know this has been asked before, but what are , in general terms, the way of upgrading an entire system to woody? I have to install stable first (on an alpha...due to woody install glitches), Hmm, what's wrong with the woody installation? and

RE: upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-28 Thread Ted Goodridge, Jr
@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: upgrading from stable to woody Ted Goodridge, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know this has been asked before, but what are , in general terms, the way of upgrading an entire system to woody? I have to install stable first (on an alpha...due to woody install

Re: upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-28 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, APT has to be the greatest thing ever. All you really need to do is edit your /etc/apt/sources.list file to point to either stable, or testing, or unstable and then run #apt-get update #apt-get dist-upgrade Obviously, you want woody, so you would point apt sources to testing. To point the

Re: upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-28 Thread Rene Engelhard
Mike Egglestone wrote: APT has to be the greatest thing ever. Jes, it is. All you really need to do is edit your /etc/apt/sources.list file to point to either stable, or testing, or unstable and then run #apt-get update #apt-get dist-upgrade Obviously, you want woody, so you would

Re: upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-28 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Falk Hueffner wrote: Ted Goodridge, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know this has been asked before, but what are , in general terms, the way of upgrading an entire system to woody? I have to install stable first (on an alpha...due to woody install glitches), Hmm, what's wrong with the

Re: upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-28 Thread Robert Funnell
On Tue, 28 May 2002, Adam C Powell IV wrote: edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point to woody, and do apt-get dist-upgrade This usually works great, but for an upgrade of this magnitude (between releases), I'd strongly recommend dselect or another tool with interactive dependency negotiation.

Re: upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-28 Thread Oki DZ
On 2002.05.29 05:59 Robert Funnell wrote: I'm also confused about kernels. I think I read that there was a choice of kernel versions to use with woody. I guess there's no problem with upgrading to woody using the same old kernel? I assume that dselect doesn't do kernels. Usually, you wouldn't

Re: upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-28 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 06:59:11PM -0400, Robert Funnell wrote: I was going to ask if one could do this using dselect rather than apt-get dist-upgrade, but concluded that it was a dumb question and that the answer was obviously 'no'. I guess I was wrong. Do you have to do anything special in