-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Last night I decided I'd attempt to upgrade a simple slink base installation to potato, just to see how well it worked. I installed the base slink system and used apt via dselect to upgrade everything. I am truly amazed at how easy it was! Everything just worked. No reboots required. Man, I love Debian!
I did notice one bug, but I didn't submit it last night and I don't remember enough of the details today. It involved the installation of NIS, which tried to overwrite a file from another package. It was fixed using dpkg --force-overwrite, but I don't remember what file or what package it conflicted with. Argh. I didn't see this bug in the list of current bugs for the NIS package, so I'm not really sure what to do. 8^( Also, how can I install shadow passwords in potato? I need them because my other machines use them, and I use NIS to share passwords. The users can't log in to the potato machine because there is no /etc/shadow. Would it be enough to create a shadow file that contains nothing but "+:::::" or however many colons are required in it? Or is there more that must happen for shadow passwords to work over NIS? Many thanks to all the Debian developers who work to make this the best Linux distribution available! noah PGP Public Key available at http://www.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html or by `finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOCmIZodCcpBjGWoFAQEvIAP/TuhtdBBKDzkNUfalW2VofqYsyrlVR6Ml M4fCI8UUN0jUeDKuseVkYTGtBG1LDZEAPa5IXmaCID84YNzvfbEmT9nPYYbfRPbW x++VzjZA/n4HM6DOnZJ0HiNAh+B3tjfLCHfpiXLnGF1CXVYjDYsrIUZ1uhLXcoeB C39NxgpeaBg= =5uob -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
