-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Stephen Dewey wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.john...@cox.net> wrote: >>> I am having trouble with the libfaac0 package, and have been hoping to >>> upgrade it the hope that a bug fix has been released for my problem. >>> The libfaac0 package requires libc6 >= 2.7-1 but etch only has >>> 2.3.6.ds1-13etch8, so I've added a testing distribution to my sources >>> list. >>> >> [snip] >>> >>> Any ideas? >> Sure. Don't mix Stable and Testing. This close to Stable becoming >> Oldstable, Etch and Lenny have very different dependencies. >> > > Ok. I am OK with moving to Lenny. Would it then be OK for me to simply > upgrade to Lenny via the below? > > apt-get update > apt-get -t stable upgrade > apt-get -t stable dist-upgrade > apt-get -t testing upgrade > apt-get -t testing dist-upgrade > > (I am getting this from > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-woody.en.html - I
That seems to have been the prefered way of upgrading from potato to woody. Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (a.k.a. woody) was released on 19th of July, *2002*. I followed the recommendations for lenny from http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/10/msg00000.html and it worked for me without problems. > * If you are running stable (aka "Etch"), you could consider > upgrading to "Lenny" and see, if everything works fine. Currently there > are no detailed release notes documenting the procedure, so you best > way to test upgrades are to: > > 1. Make backups > 2. Change your /etc/apt/sources.list > 3. Run aptitude update to get information about new packages > 4. Run aptitude install dpkg aptitude apt to install the newest package > management > 5. Run aptitude full-upgrade > > If something goes wrong / something unexpected happens, please report > it. If you already know a specific package, report a bug against that > package. If you don't know, please report a bug describing the problem > you experienced to the upgrade-reports package. If your problem is > something, which can't be fixed properly, but should be documented > (e.g. hardware support regressions, packages no longer available) > please report a bug against the release-notes package (Bonus points if > you not only report the bug, but also supply a paragraph to be added to > the release notes). The main difference is that aptitude is now prefered over apt-get. YMMV, Johannes -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAklvCGYACgkQC1NzPRl9qEV/tgCfUI3WjH5740dC2Aoks1T1wKeG HusAnj078EBSq5wPdjJ9Ow2AElRcpnzr =+mxl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
