Re: Upgrade testing to unstable but debian_version and os-release not changing to sid

2021-08-17 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 17/08/2021 15:50, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 17 Aug 2021 at 10:46:49 (+0100), Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: >> On 17/08/2021 02:21, Robbi Nespu wrote: >>> I have been using debian testing (bullseye) for 1 year (plus) and I want >>> to use sid as my daily driver. >>> >>> I change source.list to si

Re: Upgrade testing to unstable but debian_version and os-release not changing to sid

2021-08-17 Thread David Wright
On Tue 17 Aug 2021 at 10:46:49 (+0100), Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > On 17/08/2021 02:21, Robbi Nespu wrote: > > I have been using debian testing (bullseye) for 1 year (plus) and I want > > to use sid as my daily driver. > > > > I change source.list to sid > >     $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list > >  

Re: Upgrade testing to unstable but debian_version and os-release not changing to sid

2021-08-17 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 17/08/2021 02:21, Robbi Nespu wrote: > I have been using debian testing (bullseye) for 1 year (plus) and I want > to use sid as my daily driver. > > I change source.list to sid >     $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list >     deb http://ftp.jp.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free >     deb-src h

Re: Upgrade testing to unstable but debian_version and os-release not changing to sid

2021-08-16 Thread Robbi Nespu
That great knowing it nothing wrong.. well then I just wait, since it nothing much and my source.list is correct -- Robbi Nespu D311 B5FF EEE6 0BE8 9C91 FA9E 0C81 FA30 3B3A 80BA https://robbinespu.gitlab.io | https://mstdn.social/@robbinespu

Re: Upgrade testing to unstable but debian_version and os-release not changing to sid

2021-08-16 Thread David Wright
On Mon 16 Aug 2021 at 21:47:08 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 09:21:52AM +0800, Robbi Nespu wrote: > > $ cat /etc/debian_version > > 11.0 > > > > $ cat /etc/os-release > > PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)" > > NAME="Debian GNU/Linux" > >

Re: Upgrade testing to unstable but debian_version and os-release not changing to sid

2021-08-16 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 09:21:52AM +0800, Robbi Nespu wrote: > $ cat /etc/debian_version > 11.0 > > $ cat /etc/os-release > PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)" > NAME="Debian GNU/Linux" > VERSION_ID="11" > VERSION="11 (bullseye)" > VERSION_CODENAME=bullseye

Upgrade testing to unstable but debian_version and os-release not changing to sid

2021-08-16 Thread Robbi Nespu
I have been using debian testing (bullseye) for 1 year (plus) and I want to use sid as my daily driver. I change source.list to sid $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.jp.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.jp.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non

Re: Anyone having X problem updating from testing to unstable.

2006-05-15 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
On 5/7/06, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/6/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 15:11:17 -1000, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas wrote: > > On 5/5/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > > >http://wiki.debian.org/Xorg69To

Re: Anyone having X problem updating from testing to unstable.

2006-05-07 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
On 5/6/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 15:11:17 -1000, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas wrote: > On 5/5/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > >http://wiki.debian.org/Xorg69To7 > > [...] > > [...]. WDM doesn't seem to work here, and > I've already

Re: Anyone having X problem updating from testing to unstable.

2006-05-06 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 15:11:17 -1000, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas wrote: > On 5/5/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > >Check out the Xorg transition wiki first; it has solutions for the most > >common problems related to the upgrade: > > > >http://wiki.debian.org/Xorg69To7 > >

Re: Anyone having X problem updating from testing to unstable.

2006-05-05 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
On 5/5/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 15:58:28 -0600, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas wrote: > It looks like the modularized Xorg finally got into unstable, which is > good news I believe. Only problem is that I moved from testing to > unstable,

Re: Anyone having X problem updating from testing to unstable.

2006-05-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 15:58:28 -0600, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas wrote: > It looks like the modularized Xorg finally got into unstable, which is > good news I believe. Only problem is that I moved from testing to > unstable, and although I can start X up by running just X, now I can&#

Anyone having X problem updating from testing to unstable.

2006-05-05 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
It looks like the modularized Xorg finally got into unstable, which is good news I believe. Only problem is that I moved from testing to unstable, and although I can start X up by running just X, now I can't get an X session from wdm for example neither startx. I'm sure I'm ju

Re: Upgrading from old Sarge (Testing) to Unstable

2005-12-02 Thread Yasir Assam
> Thanks you all for your replies. > > It sounds like I should stick to stable for now at least (till I get more confident about what I'm doing). > > The package I'm most concerned about upgrading is the kernel. I built this from the sources at kernel.org and used a Debian tool (can't rememb

Re: Upgrading from old Sarge (Testing) to Unstable

2005-12-02 Thread Yasir Assam
> Thanks you all for your replies. > > It sounds like I should stick to stable for now at least (till I get more confident about what I'm doing). > > The package I'm most concerned about upgrading is the kernel. I built this from the sources at kernel.org and used a Debian tool (can't rememb

Re: Upgrading from old Sarge (Testing) to Unstable

2005-12-02 Thread Yasir Assam
> Thanks you all for your replies. > > It sounds like I should stick to stable for now at least (till I get more confident about what I'm doing). > > The package I'm most concerned about upgrading is the kernel. I built this from the sources at kernel.org and used a Debian tool (can't remember

Re: Upgrading from old Sarge (Testing) to Unstable

2005-11-30 Thread Colin
Yasir Assam wrote: > Will doing 'apt-get upgrade' or 'apt-get dist-upgrade' install the > default kernel? Will it leave mine in the GRUB menu at least? Doing a dist-upgrade will NOT upgrade the kernel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: Upgrading from old Sarge (Testing) to Unstable

2005-11-30 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Yasir Assam wrote: > Thanks you all for your replies. > > It sounds like I should stick to stable for now at least (till I get more confident about what I'm doing). > > The package I'm most concerned about upgrading is the kernel. I built this from the sources at kernel.org and used a Debian t

Re: Upgrading from old Sarge (Testing) to Unstable

2005-11-30 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 04:58:00PM +1100, Yasir Assam wrote: > Thanks you all for your replies. > > It sounds like I should stick to stable for now at least (till I get > more confident about what I'm doing). > Update to stable. Do it gradually, taking ten or twenty packages at a time and resolv

Re: Upgrading from old Sarge (Testing) to Unstable

2005-11-29 Thread Yasir Assam
Thanks you all for your replies. It sounds like I should stick to stable for now at least (till I get more confident about what I'm doing). The package I'm most concerned about upgrading is the kernel. I built this from the sources at kernel.org and used a Debian tool (can't remember the nam

Re: Upgrading from old Sarge (Testing) to Unstable

2005-11-29 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Yasir Assam wrote: Hello, I installed DVDs of Sarge when it was the testing distribution (before the 3.1 release). Specifically I installed a snapshot dated 30 April 2005. When I installed it the following lines were added to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Sar

Re: Upgrading from old Sarge (Testing) to Unstable

2005-11-29 Thread d
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 01:54:57PM +1100, Yasir Assam wrote: > Hello, > > I installed DVDs of Sarge when it was the testing distribution (before > the 3.1 release). [...] > I now have broadband and would like to upgrade to the Unstable dist. > What's the best way of doing this? I would recomm

Re: Upgrading from old Sarge (Testing) to Unstable

2005-11-29 Thread Oliver Lupton
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 13:54:57 +1100 Yasir Assam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > deb http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian unstable main contrib non-free Assuming that's an official mirror. Easy to check. > Is it safe just to issue the following command? > > $ apt-get upgrade You probably want dist-upgr

Upgrading from old Sarge (Testing) to Unstable

2005-11-29 Thread Yasir Assam
Hello, I installed DVDs of Sarge when it was the testing distribution (before the 3.1 release). Specifically I installed a snapshot dated 30 April 2005. When I installed it the following lines were added to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Sarge_ - Official Snapsh

Re: Smooth upgrade from testing to unstable

2005-05-24 Thread John Hasler
Chuck writes: > However, in changing "testing" to "unstable" throughout > /etc/apt/sources.list, one reference became broken. It is: > deb http://security.debian.org/ unstable/updates main As all developers are free to upload to Unstable at any time there is

Re: Smooth upgrade from testing to unstable

2005-05-24 Thread Charles Hallenbeck
Many thanks. On Tue, 24 May 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Quoting Charles Hallenbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi list, Smooth as silk in under an hour, no known problems yet. However, in changing "testing" to "unstable" throughout /etc/apt/sources.list, one refe

Re: Smooth upgrade from testing to unstable

2005-05-24 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Quoting Charles Hallenbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi list, Smooth as silk in under an hour, no known problems yet. However, in changing "testing" to "unstable" throughout /etc/apt/sources.list, one reference became broken. It is: deb http://security.debian.org

Smooth upgrade from testing to unstable

2005-05-24 Thread Charles Hallenbeck
Hi list, Smooth as silk in under an hour, no known problems yet. However, in changing "testing" to "unstable" throughout /etc/apt/sources.list, one reference became broken. It is: deb http://security.debian.org/ unstable/updates main I commented this line out befor

Re: Changing from testing to unstable.

2004-07-10 Thread John L Fjellstad
just don't top post (for obvious reasons). keeping the context. Anyways, on this list, and most usenet groups, you Then you should know how to cut down the quoting. It's just a matter of John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Be lenient in what you accept. Some poor sod got a blast on

Re: Changing from testing to unstable.

2004-07-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Rob Weir wrote: > Adam Funk said > > If I have problems with a package from unstable and want to revert to a > > lower-numbered version, how would I do so? > > You can't, generally. Often you can downgrade individual packages by > dpkg -i'ing them from /var/cache/apt/archives/ or playing apt pinn

Re: Changing from testing to unstable.

2004-06-30 Thread Thomas Adam
--- John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bloody hell! > Dolphin:~# apt-get install apt-listbugs > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following extra packages will be installed: > dpkg-ruby libdpkg-ruby1.8 libintl-gettext-ruby libintl-gettext-ruby1.8

Re: Changing from testing to unstable.

2004-06-30 Thread John Summerfield
Sylvain Vedrenne wrote: Thomas Adam wrote: --- Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To change from testing to unstable, is is as simple as s/testing/unstable in /etc/apt/sources.list, `apt-get update` and `apt-get upgrade` (or do I need to use dist-upgrade for this)? Basically, yes. "d

Re: Changing from testing to unstable.

2004-06-30 Thread John Summerfield
Be lenient in what you accept. Some poor sod got a blast on a blind list I was on for a time because he didn't top-post and he, the blind bloke, didn't want to "read" all the other material before he got to the point. OTOH someone else on that list told the blind bloke how to get past it. Me, I'

Re: Changing from testing to unstable.

2004-06-30 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello! Please don't top-post, it kills the reading flow. True, many MUAs set the cursor to the top of the message being edited, but that's just so the user can weed out unneeded lines starting from top. On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 06:12:05PM +0100, Ricky Clarkson wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 18:41:19

Re: Changing from testing to unstable.

2004-06-30 Thread Ricky Clarkson
Is that true in the case of experimental? I had a few problems with experimental that I thought were related to this, a while back. On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 18:41:19 +0200, Florian Ernst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello! > > On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:34:31PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > > --- Ri

Re: Changing from testing to unstable.

2004-06-30 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello! On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:34:31PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Ricky Clarkson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 16:07:10 +0100 (BST), Thomas Adam > > If you have appropriate source lines you can do apt-get install > > thepackage/testing or apt-get install thepackage/st

Re: Changing from testing to unstable.

2004-06-30 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Ricky Clarkson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 16:07:10 +0100 (BST), Thomas Adam > > Generally you don't -- you wait for the bug to be fixed. > > If you have appropriate source lines you can do apt-get install > thepackage/testing or apt-get install thepackage/stable (synon

Re: Changing from testing to unstable.

2004-06-30 Thread Sylvain Vedrenne
Thomas Adam wrote: --- Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To change from testing to unstable, is is as simple as s/testing/unstable in /etc/apt/sources.list, `apt-get update` and `apt-get upgrade` (or do I need to use dist-upgrade for this)? Basically, yes. "dist-upgrade"

Re: Changing from testing to unstable.

2004-06-30 Thread Ricky Clarkson
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 16:07:10 +0100 (BST), Thomas Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To change from testing to unstable, is is as simple as > > s/testing/unstable in /etc/apt/sources.list, `apt-get update` and > > `apt-get upgrade` (or do I need to use dist-upgrade for th

Re: Changing from testing to unstable.

2004-06-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 01:45:56PM +, Adam Funk said > To change from testing to unstable, is is as simple as > s/testing/unstable in /etc/apt/sources.list, `apt-get update` and > `apt-get upgrade` (or do I need to use dist-upgrade for this)? Yes, use dist-upgrade. > If I have p

Re: Changing from testing to unstable.

2004-06-30 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To change from testing to unstable, is is as simple as > s/testing/unstable in /etc/apt/sources.list, `apt-get update` and > `apt-get upgrade` (or do I need to use dist-upgrade for this)? Basically, yes. "dist-upgrade" im

Changing from testing to unstable.

2004-06-30 Thread Adam Funk
To change from testing to unstable, is is as simple as s/testing/unstable in /etc/apt/sources.list, `apt-get update` and `apt-get upgrade` (or do I need to use dist-upgrade for this)? If I have problems with a package from unstable and want to revert to a lower-numbered version, how would I do so

Re: upgrade from testing to unstable

2002-01-15 Thread Jan-Hendrik Palic
Hi Bernd . On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 06:33:46PM +0100, Bernd Kappler wrote: [Upgrading from woody to sid] >Unpacking replacement console-data ... >Setting up console-common (0.7.12) ... >Looking for keymap to install: >NONE >Setting up console-data (1999.08.29-23) ... >No default for console-data/

Re: Testing to unstable

2002-01-12 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Jason M. Harvey: > | without any problems. I might try compiling a non-debian 2.4 to see how it > | goes. (I can still boot the system with my old 2.2 kernel) > | > | The way the error messages referes to device 303, does 2.4 refer to devices > | differently? > | > > as for the devi

Re: Testing to unstable

2002-01-11 Thread Jason M. Harvey
| without any problems. I might try compiling a non-debian 2.4 to see how it | goes. (I can still boot the system with my old 2.2 kernel) | | The way the error messages referes to device 303, does 2.4 refer to devices | differently? | as for the device 303 error, i've never ran into that mysel

Re: Testing to unstable

2002-01-10 Thread Roderick Cummings
From: "Jason M. Harvey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Testing to unstable Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:55:51 -0500 On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 07:19:15AM -0600, Adam Majer wrote: | On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 07:10:32AM -0500, Roderick Cummings

Re: Testing to unstable

2002-01-10 Thread Roderick Cummings
From: Adam Majer To: Roderick Cummings CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Testing to unstable Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 07:19:15 -0600 On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 07:10:32AM -0500, Roderick Cummings wrote: > > Hi, > > I had a system running testing for a while, and I de

Re: Testing to unstable

2002-01-10 Thread Jason M. Harvey
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 07:19:15AM -0600, Adam Majer wrote: | On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 07:10:32AM -0500, Roderick Cummings wrote: <<---snip--->> | > Please append a correct "root=" boot option <<---snip--->> is there any change there's no root=/dev/device_name for your root partition in your lilo.c

Re: Testing to unstable

2002-01-10 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 07:10:32AM -0500, Roderick Cummings wrote: > > Hi, > > I had a system running testing for a while, and I decided to try unstable. > I did a dist-upgrade and everything seemed to go fine, however on reboot, > the new 2.4 kernel won't boot correctly, it fails to mount root

Testing to unstable

2002-01-10 Thread Roderick Cummings
Hi, I had a system running testing for a while, and I decided to try unstable. I did a dist-upgrade and everything seemed to go fine, however on reboot, the new 2.4 kernel won't boot correctly, it fails to mount root. I've tried a few things with mkinitrd, and fiddled with lilo. Modutils were

upgrade from testing to unstable

2002-01-08 Thread Bernd Kappler
Hi, I just upgraded my system from testing to unstable. However, the configurarion of console-data can not be accomplished. The error message generated by dpkg --cofigure reads Unpacking replacement console-data ... Setting up console-common (0.7.12) ... Looking for keymap to install: NONE