On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 20:44:26 +0530, jtd said:
> On Saturday 10 February 2007 19:49, Dinesh Shah wrote:
>> # apt-get dist-upgrade
>> Selects 737 upgraded, 345 newly installed, 55 to remove and 2 not
>> upgraded and will download 667MB. :-(
>>
>> Do you think my system will survive this upgrade?
It should. Please file an installation bug report on
debian-installer if things do not work out, doing so should get you
very expert help in unjamming your system.
> It will. But there is a very small chance that u may have to
> intervene manually, usually with dpkg -i --force-overwrite <some
You should not do this unless you know exactly what you are
doing. Before you force things in, it is easier to unjam the system,
after forcing something in, all bets are off.
> package>. Or even manually opening the deb and copying required
> files if u are drunk. ( i am sober right now).
I have never, ever seen that to be required; and one of my
machines was installed in 1996, and has been dist-upgraded ever
since. I've replaced the motherboard, and hard drives , power
supply, graphics and sound cards, and yes, even the case, but each
has been piecemeal :)
>> Is there any way I can selectively upgrade only important packages
>> like X11?
> You could but it could be a very very long night .
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/en/quick-reference.txt
> should help to do the above and bail out if neccessary.
Partial upgrades are supported, but only on a best effort
basis. At this point, I think too many things have changed for a
partial upgrade to remain partial -- I think you'll end up with a
large upload, and a mostly etch machine, but different enough that
bugs on your box might not be reproducible by other people, and thus
harder to fix.
manoj
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