Hi Frans, On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 12:31:29AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 16 May 2005 17:58, Frans Pop wrote: > > Should users first upgrade dpkg and aptitude before upgrading the rest > > of the system or can the upgrade safely be done using Woody's version > > of the package tools?
> From the reactions to this thread and a thread on #309340 [1], the > consensus seems to be that the upgrade method least likely to have > problems is: > 1. Check that /etc/apt/sources.list points to "woody" > 2. apt-get update > 3. apt-get install aptitude > 4. change the /etc/apt/sources.list to point to "sarge" > 5. apt-get update > 6. aptitude install aptitude dpkg > 7. aptitude -f --with-recommends dist-upgrade > Comments > 1. If the sources.list pointed to stable the user should check if > he has already updated anything; he will be largely on his own > if that should produce problems. > 3. Woody's aptitude is installed because using that to install/upgrade > to Sarge's aptitude produces less problems than using apt-get. > 4. The consensus seems to be that using "sarge" instead of "stable" is > more secure as it will prevent premature upgrades for a next release. > 5. apt-get is used to work around #309357. > The main open question now is step 6. There are two options: > - upgrade both aptitude and dpkg _before_ the dist-upgrade; > - upgrade _only_ aptitude and leave the upgrade of dpkg to be done as > part of the dist-upgrade. > From my own experiences [2] it seems it could be wise to advise a bit more > flexible method. For me 'aptitude install aptitude dpkg perl' (i.e. with > "perl" added) produced the best results for step 6. Is there a difference in packages removed if you run "aptitude install aptitude" instead of "aptitude install aptitude dpkg"? I don't see any reason why dpkg needs to be upgraded first, unlike aptitude. If perl needs to be added to the list, I say to just add it. People who have Prio: standard packages missing from their systems probably won't want to follow our advise to use aptitude, either. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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