I got it to work, but here's some pointers for the archives :) On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 10:11:42PM -0600, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 10:44:09PM -0500, Jonathan Markevich wrote: > > I'm wondering what to put in sources.list for the new testing distribution. > > I've been holding off a wholesale woody upgrade for something exactly like > > this! > > You would change ("stable" or "potato") to ("testing" or "woody") > such as: > deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free
Did that, it complained a great deal... (see below) > > When I tried just changing my potato entries to woody, I get threats to > > remove kdebase. I've begun to rely an awful lot on KDE2 lately... are my > > fears of KDE rejection unwarranted? I'd also like to get the latest X, > > since I'm still running 3.x, it might just be time to leap! Where is it? > > Woody? If so, is it named something different, like xfree-4 or is there X > > 3.x at all in Woody? (I want that XRender extension...!) > > >From what I have read testing/woody has been rolled back to potato 2.2r2, so > I would think you woud experience no change in packages at this time, > including KDE packages. I did get it to work, and there was about 81 packages to update, so there is something. > I also read that Xfree4.01 will not be in testing for a while, which leaves > you with Xfree3.3.6 for now. Drat, and me with high speed access for only two more days... > > Any pointers, or should I just hold on and wait for a bigger announcement? > > Don't really know. Have read that testing may not be completely ready yet, but > don't know if that is true. Maybe give it a week, or do some research, and try > it. It sounds good to me. Ok, here's what happened. When I tried at first to update, it wanted to remove a serious pile of packages. These removals were based on the mesa-glide packages! My old Voodoo card isn't working in my new Athlon machine, so I decided to back out to regular mesa (sigh) until I get a new 3D card. I couldn't uninstall it without bringing KDE2 with it! I installed mesa on top of it, and it replaced as it would, without a KDEctomy. NOW, I could upgrade with barely a hiccup. It was a nice upgrade. I LOVE this new testing idea!!!!! It's exactly the comfort/technology balance I want. -- Jonathan Markevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.geocities.com/jmarkevich == It's VIRUSES, not VIRII! See http://language.perl.com/misc/virus.html == You have many friends and very few living enemies.