And of course if you remember Toy Story Sid was the kid who broke toys... :) ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Tommi Komulainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 12:30:12 +0200
>On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 07:30:07PM +1000, James Sinnamon wrote: >> Setting up debconf (0.5.49) ... >> Can't locate warnings.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5 >[...] >> >> 1. Is this just a matter of course? Do I need to work my way , slowly >> and laboriously through these sorts of problems if I wish to install a >> sid/unstable system , or is there l ikely to be a straightforward fix to >> this which would enable me to install all of the packages without too >> much hassle? > >I remember seeing similar errors while helping my friend upgrading from >potato to sid. I don't know exactly where the problem lies, but >reinstalling perl-5.6, perl-5.6-base and debconf seemed to fix it for us. >You can't use apt-get just yet, but cd into /var/cache/apt/archives, you >should find all the packages there. Simply install them using >dpkg --install. > >Your mileage may vary, though. > > >> 2. Are there documents somewhere which are specific to installind >> sid/unstable? > >The documentation goes like this: > >1. Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and replace every occurence of 'potato' or > 'woody' with 'sid' and 'stable' or 'testing' with 'unstable'. >2. run apt-get update >3. run apt-get dist-upgrade > >If unstable weren't unstable, you shouldn't have had any problems >whatsoever. Unfortunately this is not the case. Problems come and go as >new packages are added and old ones upgraded, therefore an installation >manual to unstable would always be outdated. > >Today there are known problems with perl and debconf, yesterday it was X4, >day before yesterday glibc was fscked, and so on. Tomorrow it could be >dpkg or apt that is broken. > >When woody was 'unstable' there was this following quote: > >"This release is currently considered ``unstable''. That means that things > *will* break if you run it." > >Naturally the same quote now applies to sid. > >Have fun. > > >-- >Tommi Komulainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] >GPG 1024D/68388EE6 6FD6 DD79 EB38 BF6F 3533 09C0 04A8 9871 6838 8EE6 > >
