Re: dist-upgrade from stable to testing

2001-08-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 12:20:57AM -0600, Phil Reardon wrote: > On Monday 13 August 2001 11:36 pm, John Galt wrote: > > mkdir /etc/exim then rerun apt-get dist-upgrade... You won't have to > > re-download the 166M, BTW. > > > > On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Phil Reardon wrote: > > >After apt-get update, ap

Re: dist-upgrade from stable to testing

2001-08-14 Thread Phil Reardon
On Monday 13 August 2001 11:36 pm, John Galt wrote: > mkdir /etc/exim then rerun apt-get dist-upgrade... You won't have to > re-download the 166M, BTW. > > On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Phil Reardon wrote: > >After apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade to testing, I got a successful > >download of 166 MB. B

Re: dist-upgrade from stable to testing

2001-08-14 Thread John Galt
mkdir /etc/exim then rerun apt-get dist-upgrade... You won't have to re-download the 166M, BTW. On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Phil Reardon wrote: >After apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade to testing, I got a successful >download of 166 MB. But during the install/config, I saw this message: > >mv: cann

dist-upgrade from stable to testing

2001-08-14 Thread Phil Reardon
After apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade to testing, I got a successful download of 166 MB. But during the install/config, I saw this message: mv: cannot create regjular file '/etc/exim/exim.conf' ; No such file or directory. dpkg: error processing /var/cach/apt/archives/exim_3.31-1_i386.d

Re: dist-upgrade from stable to testing: circular dependency

2001-08-09 Thread Michael Heldebrant
Try installing both packages at once from dpkg. If that won't work then you get to now learn the joys of "forcing" packages into your system. run dpkg --force-help I won't tell you which one to use because it's best if you read the help and then make an informed decision about "forcing" your "dep

dist-upgrade from stable to testing: circular dependency

2001-08-09 Thread brlewis
The debian-testing archive doesn't have any messages since April, so I presume this is the correct list. I changed sources.list from stable to testing, used dselect to do what is presumably the equivalent of apt-get update, then did apt-get dist-upgrade, which failed with an error message. perl: