-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 03:12:32AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > That being said, you'll probably run into a few false starts during the > dist-upgrade - few conflicting packages that need to be tweaked manually > or temporarily removed with dpkg (sometimes using some sort of --force). > Once you get the hang of it, unstable transitions aren't so bad, but > having a small amont of packages to upgrade as well as some experience > "massaging" the packages to get out of dist-upgrade problems (most of > the time a --fix-missing will do the trick) helps.
I'd also go re-read the long "The Myth of Apt Pinning" thread that ran a while back. One of the DDs speaks out against pinning, essentially considering it harmful. Consider yourself warned if you *really* want to run a frankendistro. - -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+ir1PJ5vLSqVpK2kRAlm2AKCe190Sw21TKz6iIhS6EqDI+VlKmACdFLoL TrR/zTXbh5EBJCj6nUkFo+s= =60/g -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
