Re: upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-29 Thread Rob Byrnes
At 10:16 30/05/2002, Falk Hueffner sent this up the stick: Goswin Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Ted Goodridge, Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The woody alpha install images have that nasty loop bug with the base > > pkg. > > Ted > > Still? > > Sid/unstable too? You can install

Re: upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-29 Thread Falk Hueffner
Goswin Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Ted Goodridge, Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The woody alpha install images have that nasty loop bug with the base > > pkg. > > Ted > > Still? > > Sid/unstable too? You can install till your in that loop and then > replace the faulty deb w

Re: upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-29 Thread Goswin Brederlow
"Ted Goodridge, Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The woody alpha install images have that nasty loop bug with the base > pkg. > Ted Still? Sid/unstable too? You can install till your in that loop and then replace the faulty deb with a newer one. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-29 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Robert Funnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 28 May 2002, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > >edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point to woody, and do apt-get > > >dist-upgrade > > > > > This usually works great, but for an upgrade of this magnitude (between > > releases), I'd strongly recommend d

Re: upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-29 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Robert Funnell wrote: On Tue, 28 May 2002, Adam C Powell IV wrote: edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point to woody, and do apt-get dist-upgrade This usually works great, but for an upgrade of this magnitude (between releases), I'd strongly recommend dselect or another tool with interactive depe

Re: upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-28 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 06:59:11PM -0400, Robert Funnell wrote: > I was going to ask if one could do this using dselect rather than > apt-get dist-upgrade, but concluded that it was a dumb question and > that the answer was obviously 'no'. I guess I was wrong. Do you have > to do anything special i

Re: upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-28 Thread Oki DZ
On 2002.05.29 05:59 Robert Funnell wrote: I'm also confused about kernels. I think I read that there was a choice of kernel versions to use with woody. I guess there's no problem with upgrading to woody using the same old kernel? I assume that dselect doesn't do kernels. Usually, you wouldn't h

Re: upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-28 Thread Robert Funnell
On Tue, 28 May 2002, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > >edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point to woody, and do apt-get > >dist-upgrade > > > This usually works great, but for an upgrade of this magnitude (between > releases), I'd strongly recommend dselect or another tool with > interactive dependency negot

Re: upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-28 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Falk Hueffner wrote: "Ted Goodridge, Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I know this has been asked before, but what are , in general terms, the way of upgrading an entire system to woody? I have to install stable first (on an alpha...due to woody install glitches), Hmm, what's wrong with the

Re: upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-28 Thread Rene Engelhard
Mike Egglestone wrote: > APT has to be the greatest thing ever. Jes, it is. > All you really need to do is edit your /etc/apt/sources.list file > to point to either stable, or testing, or unstable and then > run > #apt-get update > #apt-get dist-upgrade > > Obviously, you want woody, so you w

Re: upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-28 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, APT has to be the greatest thing ever. All you really need to do is edit your /etc/apt/sources.list file to point to either stable, or testing, or unstable and then run #apt-get update #apt-get dist-upgrade Obviously, you want woody, so you would point apt sources to "testing". To point th

RE: upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-28 Thread Ted Goodridge, Jr
rg; debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: upgrading from stable to woody > > "Ted Goodridge, Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I know this has been asked before, but what are , in general terms, the > > way of upgrading an entire system to woody? I

Re: upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-28 Thread Falk Hueffner
"Ted Goodridge, Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I know this has been asked before, but what are , in general terms, the > way of upgrading an entire system to woody? I have to install stable > first (on an alpha...due to woody install glitches), Hmm, what's wrong with the woody installation?