Re: failing to upgrade sysvinit from Knoppix version

2003-10-30 Thread kmark+debian
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, David Z Maze wrote: > Simon Tod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> Knowing what exactly the version is might be helpful. If the > >> Knoppix people have added an epoch to their version number, APT > >> would be entirely corre

Re: failing to upgrade sysvinit from Knoppix version

2003-10-29 Thread David Z Maze
Simon Tod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Knowing what exactly the version is might be helpful. If the >> Knoppix people have added an epoch to their version number, APT >> would be entirely correct in concluding that 1:2.84-mumble is newer >> than 2.85

Re: failing to upgrade sysvinit from Knoppix version

2003-10-29 Thread Simon Tod
--- David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simon Tod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > After a hdd install from knoppix 3.2 I tried to > dist-upgrade to > > Debian unstable. It all seems to work fine but my > debian_version is > > still reported as testing/unstable. > > Isn't that what it's s

Re: failing to upgrade sysvinit from Knoppix version

2003-10-28 Thread David Z Maze
Simon Tod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > After a hdd install from knoppix 3.2 I tried to dist-upgrade to > Debian unstable. It all seems to work fine but my debian_version is > still reported as testing/unstable. Isn't that what it's supposed to be? That's certainly what it is on this sid machine

failing to upgrade sysvinit from Knoppix version

2003-10-28 Thread Simon Tod
Opps. Thought I re-send this with a subject line! After a hdd install from knoppix 3.2 I tried to dist-upgrade to Debian unstable. It all seems to work fine but my debian_version is still reported as testing/unstable. I've tracked this down to the fact that a number of packages from the hdd instal