* Patrick Dahiroc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
after simulating an apt-get dist-upgrade to
woody/testing. apt-get issued the following warning:
WARNING: The following essential packages will be
removed
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what
you are doing!
sysvinit util-linux (due to sysvinit)
are these warnings benign? are these packages no
longer needed woody? please adivse.
thanks
patrick
These two packages are necessary, however I suspect the "Warning" is a
benign artifact. The "testing" version(s) have a higher (different)
number than the same packages in "stable", hence they are probably in
the list of packages that are to be "upgraded". I suspect what you are
seeing is only half of the total action that will be accomplished during
the upgrade on these packages. In some cases the changes between
package versions is fairly significant, and requires removal of the old
package before installing the new one. I am fairly confident that the
package maintainers who created this process "..know exactly what you
are doing"...<grin>. I have used this method to upgrade about 4-5
machines here, and I have yet to have it leave me with a system missing
these packages!
If you want to really check it out, do the "apt-get dist-upgrade" and
look over the list of packages and the proposed actions at the front end
of the process. It will stop and ask you if you want to proceed. This
is a good time to review the list of proposed changes. I will bet that
both sysvinit and util-linux are on the "upgrade" list.
Cheers,
-Don Spoon-
