On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 11:19:17AM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote: > I have a Woody system that has been running for over a year now without > much change, and I just tried to do an apt-update, and then apt-upgrade, > and the whole thing seems to be totally messed up. (see below) <snip> > 216 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 36 not upgraded.
I'm curious... One does not have these issues (upgrading that many packages and holding back 36, while having dependency problems) if you simply upgrade your packages for security reasons using just security.debian.org. So, I take it that you run woody, while you want to upgrade to sarge or sid (testing or unstable). Is this true? If so, do _not_ use apt-get upgrade, since this does not handle new dependencies _at all_. In sarge or sid, the dependencies between packages are different from those in woody, since newer versions have been installed, packages have been split or merged, new packages with new features have been added, etc. To upgrade to another distro, use apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade where dist-upgrade will tell apt-get to add and remove packages to resolve dependency issues. Under normal circumstances, you can trust apt-get. HTH, David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
