Re: Changing from stable to testing.....

2010-10-26 Thread Whit Hansell
Thanks Brian. Info much appreciated. Whit brian m. carlson wrote: On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 07:39:52PM +0200, sigi wrote: last time I tried to dist-upgrade to squeeze, I got stuck in an (for me) unresolvable loop: The system wanted to upgrade the kernel-image and udev in one run - which

Re: Changing from stable to testing.....

2010-10-25 Thread sigi
Hi Whit, last time I tried to dist-upgrade to squeeze, I got stuck in an (for me) unresolvable loop: The system wanted to upgrade the kernel-image and udev in one run - which failed. apt-get always complained, that the kernel-image needs the new udev-package to upgrade - and udev itself

Re: Changing from stable to testing.....

2010-10-25 Thread brian m. carlson
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 07:39:52PM +0200, sigi wrote: last time I tried to dist-upgrade to squeeze, I got stuck in an (for me) unresolvable loop: The system wanted to upgrade the kernel-image and udev in one run - which failed. apt-get always complained, that the kernel-image needs the

Re: Changing from stable to testing.....

2010-10-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 07:39:52PM +0200, sigi wrote: Hi Whit, last time I tried to dist-upgrade to squeeze, I got stuck in an (for me) unresolvable loop: The system wanted to upgrade the kernel-image and udev in one run - which failed. apt-get always complained, that the kernel-image

Re: Changing from stable to testing.....

2010-10-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 02:42:54PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 07:39:52PM +0200, sigi wrote: Hi Whit, last time I tried to dist-upgrade to squeeze, I got stuck in an (for me) unresolvable loop: The system wanted to upgrade the kernel-image and udev in one

Re: Changing from stable to testing.....

2010-10-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 09:10:09PM -0500, Karl Schmidt wrote: I did the upgrade from lenny to squeeze without any problems - if you read the wiki, you are supposed to upgrade apt dpkg and aptitude first - then the kernel - then distupgrade. And was your system up and usable during pretty

Re: Changing from stable to testing.....

2010-10-25 Thread Karl Schmidt
I did the upgrade from lenny to squeeze without any problems - if you read the wiki, you are supposed to upgrade apt dpkg and aptitude first - then the kernel - then distupgrade. It worked - but - there is always some cruft that accumulates - so if you have time, you might want to bkup your

Re: Changing from stable to testing.....

2010-10-25 Thread Karl Schmidt
On 10/25/2010 09:24 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 09:10:09PM -0500, Karl Schmidt wrote: I did the upgrade from lenny to squeeze without any problems - if you read the wiki, you are supposed to upgrade apt dpkg and aptitude first - then the kernel - then distupgrade. And was

Re: Changing from stable to testing.....

2010-10-24 Thread Sam Varghese
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 10:35:31PM -0400 Whit Hansell said: Just thinking that since Squeeze is coming up to be the new stable and have been running Lenny since March of 2009, I was wondering about how difficult it would be to change from Lenny(stable) to Squeeze(testing) now. big snip I

Re: Changing from stable to testing.....

2010-10-24 Thread Whit Hansell
Hey Sam, Thanks for the reply. It's helpful. Gracias Whit Sam Varghese wrote: On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 10:35:31PM -0400 Whit Hansell said: Just thinking that since Squeeze is coming up to be the new stable and have been running Lenny since March of 2009, I was wondering about how