On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 14:13:08 -0500 Slicky Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> aptitude safe-upgrade breaks/hangs with the following... > > > > patch (2.6.1-1) unstable; urgency=low > > The options -U --unified-reject-files and --global-reject-file have > now been removed. > > -- Christoph Berg <[email protected]> Sun, 06 Feb 2011 20:17:11 +0100 > > /tmp/tmpwB77U9 (END) > > > > > I've not seen anything like this in my 6 years of running Debian. I > keep a install of Sid around in a VM (VBox) to track the progress of > Debian. > > Hopefully I'm not the only one blind sided by this. Understandably > there will be all sorts of nonsense directly after a release, but this > is a first. > > I'm curious how this problem even hit Sid. I thought everything was > passed through a system (forget the name) to ensure updates build > properly on end users? > > I'm guessing you were blind sided because you have 'testing' in your source.list rather than a code name ie squeeze|wheezy. If that is indeed the case you should change your habits. It's no different than if you're running Sid at the moment. There will be a flood of all sorts of unexpected things that are not documented (yet) because of the release. Actually, a broken system would be what I expect out of all that. Pay close attention of whats is really going down each time you run a package manager and read at least this list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
