Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit
> What about upgrades? Initial installs probably aren't a problem, but
> people upgrading without metapackages will get xbase-clients and not xinit!
> (thus preventing them from starting X at all, at least using the common
> methods)
I don't think people will get xbase-clients in the current situation.
In my experience of upgrading several systems, upgrading from potato shall see
most of X-related packages being removed, notably, "startx" goes missing.
If we kept "task-x-window-system-core" package, that might have helped us
upgrade (i am not sure), but we don't have such thing to keep our packages
together, it seems.
If you have any doubt, try:
# pbuilder create --distribution potato --basetgz ~/base-potato.tgz
# pbuilder login --basetgz ~/base-potato.tgz
and install X, and upgrade to woody from there... (if you have the bandwidth
etc.)
Upgrading from potato with base and build-essential and
task-x-window-system-core installed:
For woody:
bin/bash-2.03# apt-get dist-upgrade -s |more
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
The following packages will be REMOVED:
console-tools task-x-window-system-core xbase-clients xfonts-100dpi
xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base xfonts-scalable
The following NEW packages will be installed:
cpp-2.95 g++-2.95 gcc-2.95 ifupdown ipchains klogd libcap1 libdb3 libdps1
libfreetype6 libpcap0 libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 libxaw6 libxaw7 net-tools
netkit-inetd netkit-ping perl perl-modules xlibs
The following packages have been kept back
base-config console-data xserver-common xserver-svga
83 packages upgraded, 20 newly installed, 7 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
For sid:
bin/bash-2.03# apt-get dist-upgrade -s |more
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
The following packages will be REMOVED:
console-tools task-x-window-system-core xbase-clients xfonts-100dpi
xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base xfonts-scalable
The following NEW packages will be installed:
cpp-2.95 g++-2.95 gcc-2.95 ifupdown ipchains klogd libcap1 libdb3 libdps1
libfreetype6 libpcap0 libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 libxaw6 libxaw7 net-tools
netkit-inetd netkit-ping perl perl-modules xlibs
The following packages have been kept back
base-config console-data pcmcia-cs xserver-common xserver-svga
regards,
junichi
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