In line with Dale Scheetz's wonderful upgrade instructions, I have a list here to feed into his script to upgrade a *minimal* devel section. I upgraded the packages in this order, and suffered no ill effects (so far) and no errors from dpkg. I then went on to upgrade various other bits and pieces in the devel section and the x11 section using dselect without any problems. Near as I can tell, the list below will get one to a minimal state to compile a kernel and simple programs. To compile X and other stuff will require upgrading their respective packages (xdevel, tk40, tclX, tcl74, etc, etc) as they become needed. One note: be careful upgrading the 'net' packages -- I found the way the control files are setup for netbase and netstd make them very difficult to install by hand. I don't know if it would have been any easier using dselect.
-i /devel/ libc4 -i /devel/ libc4-dev -i /devel/ libc5-dev -i /devel/ aout-binutils -i /devel/ aout-gcc -i /devel/ aout-librl -i /devel/ autoconf -i /devel/ bin86 -i /devel/ binutils -i /devel/ bison -i /devel/ byacc -i /devel/ dlltools -i /devel/ flex -i /devel/ gcc -i /devel/ m4 -i /devel/ make --purge ncurses-developer -i /devel/ ncurses3.0-dev -i /devel/ pmake -- Scott Barker Linux Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~barkers/ (under construction) [ I try to reply to all e-mail within 5 days. If you don't ] [ get a response by then, I probably didn't get your e-mail ] [ (we have a sometimes sporadic connection to the internet) ] "I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back." - Abraham Lincoln
