On 14 Jul 2011, Joe wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:51:05 +0200 > "Hans-J. Ullrich" <hans.ullr...@loop.de> wrote: > > > > > > Has anyone any experience of doing something like this? Best way to > > > go about things? > > > > > > Anthony > > > > I made best experience with apt-get upgrade, then after it, apt-get > > dist- upgrade. > > > > This worked better than the alternative: aptitude safe-upgrade after > > it aptitude full-upgrade. However for short or long I suggest to > > change to aptitude, as the dependencies are better made. > > > > Yes, I'd agree, I recently upgraded a laptop which doesn't normally run > sid, but I needed it for one particular job. I don't know how long it > had been left alone, but it might easily have been a year or more. > > I normally use aptitude, so I did a safe- then a full-upgrade, > expecting problems, but there weren't any at either stage. I rebooted > between, as there would have been a kernel change at the first step. > > No special precautions, as it was basically a spare operating system, I > could reinstall without losing anything. You might want to be a bit > more careful. > > -- > Joe
Thanks to both for replies. I took my courage in both hands and did the upgrade. Not too many problems. The worst were (1) apt-listbugs not working caused the upgrade to stop - solved by turning off apt-listbugs in its config file, and (2) boot hanging for 5 min truing to start klogd - solved by replacing with rsyslog. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110715135345.ga2...@ithaca.acampbell.org.uk
