On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 09:35:37PM +0100, Holger Rauch wrote: > Hi! > > Is there something like a "upgrade HOWTO" describing upgrading > Potato->Woody in more detail? If so, pointers are most welcome. > > Is it "safe" to upgrade to Woody/testing at present or may it leave the > system unusable?
Others have already described the mechanics of upgrading. I will add some comments about whether it is "safe" to upgrade to testing. Last Friday I upgraded my old (~6 months) testing system to the current testing. As a result of the upgrade I hit 2 release critical bugs. The first (BTS #130306) was a because of a conflict between the old libaspell4 and new libaspell10/aspell-en. The solution for this was easy enough -- manually remove libaspell4 then the new packages will install correctly. A fix for this has been uploaded to unstable, but I don't think it is in testing yet. I don't have a solution to the second bug (#131104) yet. It is a problem when you upgrade from apache 1.3.9 (stable) to 1.3.22. The solution does not seem to be as simple as correcting the capitalization in the config file to the apache "standard". Perhaps it has to do with the 3 config file vs 1 config file in 1.3.9/1.3.22. I don't know. Anyway, this was a long way of saying: if you NEED or EXPECT your system to work without a hitch, don't upgrade to testing. If you are willing to track down problems, check the BTS, file new bugs as needed, and provide solutions to bugs then go ahead and upgrade to testing. Have fun, John
