/me flashes quickly a Debian id card Omer Zak wrote: > Today I upgraded my laptop from Debian Sarge to Debian Etch. > After editing the /etc/apt/sources.list file, I used: > apt-get update > apt-get dist-upgrade > And then I ran few upgrade rounds through aptitude.
Not sure how much it really interests linux-il folks, it definitely interests Debian folks. Bug reports on some of these issues is welcome as upgrade path is important to Debian. > I encountered the following problems: > > 1. The udev package could not be upgraded, because the recent version > depends upon kernel version >= 2.6.13, and I have kernel version 2.6.8. > I do not consider it to be serious problem. But I have to review the > HOWTO how to upgrade to new kernel version in Debian (including addition > of extra GRUB menu option, to select the new kernel). udev is a known issue, upstream doesn't care about old versions for some reason. Kernel upgrade should be trivial and you should not need to do anything to grub config, the new kernel will add itself to the config and next boot should use it. > 2. Keyboard configuration of Gnome was lost and I had to reconfigure it > to recognize Hebrew keyboard (and cause leftshift+rightshift key > combination to switch between Latin and Hebrew keyboards as before). Are you sure it was configured in Gnome? Usualy Hebrew is configured directly in X11. Both X11 and Gnome had transitions and a bug report to either of them is in order depending on who is the culprit. > 3. There were some problems with 'at' and 'drpython' packages. I > removed 'drpython' but 'at' is needed. Bug reports on such problems would be useful, reportbug is very effective in helping the bug submission. > At this opportunity, I'd like to mention the following inconveniences: > > 1. There is an old problem with the way aptitude displays information: > In my computers, apt-listbugs is enabled, and when I upgrade, the bugs > in new packages are listed. The problem is that when I upgrade several > packages, several bugs are listed and they scroll off the top of the > console display (I always run aptitude from a virtual terminal, not from > a X-Window terminal emulator). There is little that the program can do since it doesn't keep the history, you could use screen and scoll back with the screen buffer. I usually start the screen process in X and if X dies I can reconnect to it from the v-terminal or an ssh into the machine. > 2. I also noticed that some packages display "important" messages to the > sysadmin, but they do not stop the upgrade process to make sure that the > "important" messages are actually being read (when a package needs to be > configured or its configuration file was modified and needs to be > inspected, the upgrade process IS stopped at a prompt). Usually such message should be sent by email to root, some packages do not use debconf still which is an issue that will need to be resolved. If it is debconf messages and not the random package echoing some message to the console than it needs to be bug-reported for investigation. Baruch ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
