On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 06:48:53PM +0100, Michel D�nzer wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I decided to upgrade to woody from potato. This was precipitated in part > > by needing a new modutils; when i tried to manually install the deb from > > woody, I found that it depended on a newer libc than what I had. > > > > Now, I was unable to find anything but the most vague documentation on how > > to do the upgrade, but what I did was to go through /etc/apt/sources.list > > and change all instances of "stable" to "woody", then did apt-get update; > > apt-get dist-upgrade. It wound up upgrading ~100 packages. > > > > Then I checked on the version of modutils it installed. Which it didn't: I > > have version 2.3.11, which is what I had in the first place. I expected > > 2.3.21, since that's what you see when you go to ftp.debian.org > > and look in /debian/dists/woody/main/binary-powerpc/base/. However apt and > > dselect think that everything is up to date. As for libc6, that's sitting > > where is always was, at version 2.1.3-13, instead of the version that's in > > the ftp archives (2.2-5). > > > > What's going wrong? > > There's been a big reorganisation. woody is no longer called unstable (sid is) > but testing. It's been reverted to the packages from potato and will be filled > up with packages from unstable which don't have (too many) critical bugs. I > guess it's again a problem of the PPC autobuilder lagging (if there is even > any for testing yet?).
Don't think so, i heard the problem is the same on i386. So testing contains potato, and will be filled with the package from woody which have been there for more than 2 weeks, isn't it ? Friendly, Sven Luther
