On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 11:24:54PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Randolph Chung wrote: > > > Colin, I'm forwarding this to the apt list since it's more likely to get > > an answer there.... > > The one in potato has bugs <shrug>. It has always been said in the release > notes to do 'apt-get install dpkg apt' as the first operation, if that > causes all sorts of problems then it is necessary to make potato compiles > of apt/dpkg/whatever to resolve the problem - or to change the > dependencies of the problem packages in woody so it is not a problem.
I thought so, too, and I was about to tell someone to RTFM before using potato's apt to do an upgrade to woody, but I checked the current woody release notes, and they do not specify any such thing. They only require that pre-potato systems upgrade dpkg (to 1.6.13) and apt (to 0.3.19) to the static versions in upgrade-<arch>. Potato says: "If you are upgrading from Debian GNU/Linux version 2.1 (any point release) and you want to upgrade using either the network (FTP, HTTP) or a local packages mirror (possibly a disk partition, or an NFS-mounted mirror), then *you can use the apt and dpkg packages that came with that Debian release*. Of course, if apt is not installed yet (it is not by default), install it now." (emphasis added) and woody seems to include a variation of the same paragraph: "If you are upgrading from Debian GNU/Linux version 2.1 or later and you want to upgrade using either the network (FTP, HTTP) or a local packages mirror (possibly a disk partition, or an NFS-mounted mirror), then you can use the apt and dpkg packages that came with that Debian release. Of course, if apt is not installed yet, install it now." -- - mdz
