On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > > - Included sparc stuff (Ben, please check if I've got it correct; > > you may want to wait for it to appear on CVS) > > The sparc stuff is fine. However, I still believe you should have people > simply upgrade apt/dpkg implicitly from the CD's before doing a full > upgrade, as opposed to having them install static versions. > > For sparc atleast this needs to be said, mainly because your intructions > ask them to do the exect thing that you claim is the reason for installing > the latest potato static versions (broken apt multi CD dependency chains). > The upgrade should go somewhat like: > > 1) install the latest version of slink apt/dpkg from CD 1 in > upgrade-<arch>. Done. (On CDs it'll just be upgrade/ (w/o <arch>) like install/)
> > 2) Keeping CD 1 in the driver, run apt-cdrom Done, but CD 2 and 3 can be done at this point, too. The problems are (AFAIK) only in dist-upgrade. > > 3) Run "apt-get install apt dpkg". This will upgrade dpkg/apt and > everything that it depends on This is what I forgot in my hurry. (And I was already half-sleeping, too ;-) I hope to have a patch later today or tomorrow. > > 4) Run "apt-get -u dist-upgrade" Done. Regards, Anne Bezemer
