On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 05:51:55PM -0500, Rich Puhek wrote:
| Alan Poulton wrote:
| >
| > I was wondering.. should I be sticking with Potato or switch to Woody?
| >
| (snip)
| > If I upgrade to Woody, how do I do it? Would I just edit
| > /etc/apt/sources.list, replace all "stable" with "woody", then apt-get
| > update; apt-get upgrade ?
| > A friend of mine, who knows way more about Debian and Linux than I do,
| > told me that when she upgraded to Woody some time ago, there were many
| > security holes in her system. Do I need to worry about this still?
| Depending on your comfort level, you can do either one. I think you'll
| find that woody is quite stable, especially if you're on the i386
| architecture, so you can comfortably upgrade. Otherwise, you can upgrade
| specific packages fairly easily (see informaion on "pinning" releases in
| the archives of this list).
I've been running a woody/sid mixture for a long time now and haven't
had any serious problems. I've found it to be far better than RH in
any case.
| NO! you cannot do "apt-get upgrade". You are correct in your upgrade
| procedure except that you must edit sources.list, "apt-get update", then
| "apt-get dist-upgrade". The "dist-upgrade" takes care of juggling the
| complicated dependancies and conflicts that happen with upgrading the
| entire ball of wax. The "upgrade" option seems intuitive, but won't
| quite work...
In addition do an
apt-get install apt dpkg
before the "dist-upgrade". The order there is important, I've heard.
Once you upgrade apt you can use "preferences" to pin packages from
different releases at various priorities and manage to have a mixed
system.
| I've done this on about eight different systems, with few problems (had
| one box with an old-format /etc/lilo.conf file that caused me some
| difficulty when I rebuilt the kernel, but that's about it).
I've done it with 2 "real" systems and one chrooted manual install (to
become a diskless node).
-D
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