Re: stable->testing wants to remove loads of packages ...

2001-12-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 06:05:16PM +, Jonathan Matthews ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all. > > Just wondering if anyone knows why the following's happening: > > > # apt-get -f dist-upgrade > The following packages will be REMOVED: > console-tools gdm gnome-control-center gnome-gturing g

Re: stable -> testing

2001-09-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 08:18:37AM -0400, Bob Koss wrote: > I agree. I seem to be doing okay here by just replacing all occurances of > 'potato' with 'testing'. Be aware of the difference here ... Using 'potato' means you're tracking a release codename - exactly Debian 2.2 (or Debian 2.2r). Using

Re: stable -> testing

2001-09-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 06:15:26PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > When using testing, I always left the deb lines for stable in the > sources.list file. That is to say that I think rather than replacing > your stable lines with testing, you should leave them there and add > lines for testing. For som

RE: stable -> testing

2001-09-20 Thread Bob Koss
> > When I upgraded from stable to testing all I did was > change the stable to testing in tht sourceslist and > away you go.. So do you need the stable lines in > sources.list, I sy no. I agree. I seem to be doing okay here by just replacing all occurances of 'potato' with 'testing'. Robert

RE: stable -> testing

2001-09-20 Thread D. Hoyem
When I upgraded from stable to testing all I did was change the stable to testing in tht sourceslist and away you go.. So do you need the stable lines in sources.list, I sy no. --- Bob Koss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > I changed 'stable' to 'testing' everywhere in my > > /etc/apt/so

RE: stable -> testing

2001-09-20 Thread Bob Koss
> > > > I changed 'stable' to 'testing' everywhere in my > /etc/apt/sources.list file. > > When using testing, I always left the deb lines for stable in the > sources.list file. That is to say that I think rather than replacing > your stable lines with testing, you should leave them there and add

Re: stable -> testing

2001-09-19 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Bob Koss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010919 16:07]: > I have a Debian stable system, but I'm thinking unstable might be in my > future. > > This morning I thought I'd perform the simple task of compiling pan from > cvs. > > Trying to do the autoconf / make thing led me to install several packages, > w

Re: stable -> testing

2001-09-19 Thread David Z Maze
Bob Koss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BK> I changed 'stable' to 'testing' everywhere in my BK> /etc/apt/sources.list file. BK> BK> I did an 'apt-get update'. But when I attempt to do an 'apt-get BK> upgrade', I get the following error: BK> BK> 45 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove a

Re: stable -> testing

2001-09-19 Thread Mike Alborn
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 04:55:53PM -0400, Bob Koss wrote: *snip* > I changed 'stable' to 'testing' everywhere in my /etc/apt/sources.list file. > > I did an 'apt-get update'. But when I attempt to do an 'apt-get upgrade', I > get the following error: > > 45 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed,

Re: stable -> testing

2001-09-19 Thread Duncan Findlay
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 04:55:53PM -0400, Bob Koss wrote: > I have a Debian stable system, but I'm thinking unstable might be in my > future. > [snip] > > I changed 'stable' to 'testing' everywhere in my /etc/apt/sources.list file. > > I did an 'apt-get update'. But when I attempt to do an 'apt-

Re: stable - testing

2001-05-23 Thread W. Paul Mills
Did you do the "update list of available packages" step before trying to proceed with select or install. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith O'Connell) writes: > Hi, > > I decided to investigate the move from "stable" to "testing". I thought > it would be as simple as editing the sources to replace "stab

Re: stable - testing

2001-05-23 Thread Dmitry Astapov
KO> "stable" with "testing". I did that, and ran dselect to browse through KO> the changes and found a couple of problems KO> 1: Its plan to upgrade my stable system generates some dependency KO> issues. It tells me that; KO> lwrsed recommends libnss-lwres libnss-lwres does not appear to be