On mar, 2006-05-09 at 23:54 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I tried to do a 'apt-get dist-upgrade' from stable to testing.
> Is it normal for a dist-upgrade from stable to testing to be so messy? Depends of what kind of packages do you have. The problems come when you have "homemade" .debs, or tar.gz installed by yourself. Then, either because apt is not aware of the files or because of bad packaging such errors occur. e.g Many people install firefox using package from mozilla instead of the deb from stable. If you install a debianized firefox later from unstable,there you have the conflict, because apt does not know anyhing about the previous firefox Anywaym IMHO, to make a clean transition is very rare, unless you have a very clean system as well. If you know more or less what are you "-f orcing" you can minimize the danger. > I'm almost afraid to ask what to expect when you go from stable to > unstable!??1 The same. Actually the diference between testing and unstable is small compared with stable / testing. Normally, that difference is two weeks or so. Anyway, I do not expect those versions to work seamlessly. That's why they are "unstable". I use unstable and sometimes upgrades perfectly and others I have to use aptitude to know what's wrong. However, I must say that aptitude/apt seems to be smart enough to not to break the system unless you force anything > > Perhaps stable->unstable dist-upgrades are best left to bare bones > machines BEFORE you have 100s of apps to upgrade? If your final intention is to work witch unstable, of course yes. Actually, what I do is to install directly unstable (or testing) with the net-installer from debian. It asks wich repos do you want to use, and when the process finishes, you have a testing/unstable instalation. No need to to dist-upgrade > > Chris > > -- Juan M. Duran Center for Molecular Genetics, Room 305 University of California, San Diego La Jolla, CA 92093-0634 Phone #: 1-858-534-3752 Fax #: 1-858-534-7073 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
