Ed Down <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 24 Feb 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > It is my understanding from what I've read on this list that it > > is pretty much impossible to upgrade an "old" installation like mine > > without re-installing.
That's an extremely harsh criticism. Upgrading to the unstable distribution is inherently risky, but upgrading between stable versions should be fairly easy. > As far as I can deduce from the directory structure at Debian, you CAN get > new packages from the original release - minus all the updates - by taking > them from the 'rex' directory. Unfortunately limited space on CDs required that obsolete packages be erased from rex. rex contains a subset of the packages in 1.2.0. (ie - no packages are added). > So if you installed 1.2.0 you can still add new packages from there > without upgrade incompatibilities. rex-fixed, aka, stable is nothing more than a tree of symlinks to everything in rex plus everything in rex-updates. The READMEs in stable and rex-updates should make this eminently clean. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
