Re: slink->frozen upgrade problems

2000-02-24 Thread john s jacobs anderson
> "Nathan" == Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nathan> I was able to get aorund this, but I DO NOT recommend that Nathan> anyone use my method!! If you do, don't tell me about how Nathan> screwed up your system got. Quick follow-up to report that Nathan's method did in fact

Re: slink->frozen upgrade problems

2000-02-23 Thread john s jacobs anderson
> "Nathan" == Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nathan> I was able to get aorund this, but I DO NOT recommend that Nathan> anyone use my method!! If you do, don't tell me about how Nathan> screwed up your system got. [snip] Nathan, you're the man! I'll give this a try tomorro

Re: slink->frozen upgrade problems

2000-02-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 11:37:13AM -0700, john s anderson wrote: [ snip ] > However, I'd like to update the installation to at least frozen, and > probably to unstable -- and that's where the problem comes in. After doing > the base install, I add the frozen line to sources.list, do `apt-get > upda

Re: slink->frozen upgrade problems

2000-02-23 Thread John G. Norman
Same *exact* problem here--stuck on the "pre-depend" error. No fiddling could get over the bump. At 04:34 PM 2/22/2000 -0700, john s anderson wrote: On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Mike Werner wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 11:37:13AM -0700, john s anderson wrote: > > The way I did this was jump in wit

Re: slink->frozen upgrade problems

2000-02-22 Thread john s anderson
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Mike Werner wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 11:37:13AM -0700, john s anderson wrote: > > The way I did this was jump in with both feet. I did > apt-get update > apt-get dist-upgrade Just to clarify: the above does *NOT* work, as of 1630 MST 02/22/2000. The libc6_2.1.3-4_i

Re: slink->frozen upgrade problems

2000-02-22 Thread Mike Werner
On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 11:37:13AM -0700, john s anderson wrote: > Greetings! > > I've been trying to move a system at work from Red Hat to Debian for the > last day or so, without much success. The initial slink install goes okay > (I'm using the CD from the O'Reilly book), and I'm able to selec

slink->frozen upgrade problems

2000-02-22 Thread john s anderson
Greetings! I've been trying to move a system at work from Red Hat to Debian for the last day or so, without much success. The initial slink install goes okay (I'm using the CD from the O'Reilly book), and I'm able to select and install various things. However, I'd like to update the installation

slink -> frozen upgrade .. problems encountered

2000-01-20 Thread Alex Perry
Following the freeze, I changed the sources.list on one of my machines from stable to frozen and did a dist-upgrade to see how it would get on. The trick with the interim perl version didn't work. Apt managed to leave me with three base package versions installed but the program itself missing. -