On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 03:52:47PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > I've been slowly upgrading my packages from slink to potato, and > frankly, have never had a single problem. I was nervous about upgrading > perl, because I've seen all sorts of veiled references to possible > hosage (although I've never seen a concise statement of the actual > problem), but eventually I just did it, and removed the old perl. > Result? No problems, everything seems to work perfectly. Perhaps there > are a few packages that crash and burn, but I apparently don't use any > of them. >
How are you doing this? Do you just go get the packages and 'dpkg -i' them or do you use apt? There are a bunch of things I want to upgrade on my system but I assumed that all of the potato packages would have dependencies to library versions I don't have and that updating my libraries would break slink packages that I do have.
