Re: Can't upgrade from slink to woody!

2003-01-23 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 09:00:51AM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: > The directions you were given to upgrade apt and the problem you > encountered rang a bell so I dug around a bit and found the > information. There were static versions of apt and dpkg in the potato > tree (in debian/dists/potato/main/u

Re: Can't upgrade from slink to woody!

2003-01-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 10:36, Pigeon wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 03:17:22AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 14:41, Pigeon wrote: [snip] > What a shame that such a useful program has undergone no development > since 1999. What does everyone do - use 80x25, use framebuffer or

Re: Can't upgrade from slink to woody!

2003-01-23 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:57:49AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 08:41:37PM +, Pigeon wrote: > > I tried upgrading apt first, but of course it required me to upgrade > > the @$?% C libraries... which breaks every other piece of software on > > the system... > > I'm confu

Re: Can't upgrade from slink to woody!

2003-01-23 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 03:17:22AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 14:41, Pigeon wrote: > > Oh yes, and > > svgatextmode didn't work properly - the cursor didn't wrap to a new > > line when typing in a long command - so I reinstalled the old one. > > Congrats! > > Maybe the desi

Re: Can't upgrade from slink to woody!

2003-01-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 08:41:37PM +, Pigeon wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 08:32:29PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 02:25:24AM +, Pigeon wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 01:15:04PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > Could you try updating to Potato first? That wa

Re: Can't upgrade from slink to woody!

2003-01-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 08:41:37PM +, Pigeon wrote: > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 23:30:34 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Just guessing, but maybe it's segfaulting because some data or other > > has changed format and is barfing apt. Thus, "old data" may not > > cause the problems? > > > > Also, ma

Re: Can't upgrade from slink to woody!

2003-01-22 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 08:32:29PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 02:25:24AM +, Pigeon wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 01:15:04PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Could you try updating to Potato first? That way, you won't be > > > making such a huge version leap in almost

Re: Can't upgrade from slink to woody!

2003-01-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 02:25:24AM +, Pigeon wrote: > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 01:15:04PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Could you try updating to Potato first? That way, you won't be > > making such a huge version leap in almost every bit of software > > in one step. This is definitely the rec

Re: Can't upgrade from slink to woody!

2003-01-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 20:25, Pigeon wrote: > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 01:15:04PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 12:05, Pigeon wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Just got a set of Woody CDs (thanks Gerald!) to upgrade my slink > > > system. I've copied them all onto hard drives as iso

Re: Can't upgrade from slink to woody!

2003-01-19 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 01:15:04PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 12:05, Pigeon wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Just got a set of Woody CDs (thanks Gerald!) to upgrade my slink > > system. I've copied them all onto hard drives as iso images and > > loopback mounted them (read only) to av

Re: Can't upgrade from slink to woody!

2003-01-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 12:05, Pigeon wrote: > Hi, > > Just got a set of Woody CDs (thanks Gerald!) to upgrade my slink > system. I've copied them all onto hard drives as iso images and > loopback mounted them (read only) to avoid mucking around swapping CDs. > I then used apt-cdrom to add them all