Upgrading from Hamm to Slink

[Mamoun Alissali]

  Hello,

  I'm upgrading from Hamm to Slink, I didn' reboot yet but everything
seems OK
except for a few minor (?) problems:

  - I started upgrading with dselect/ftp then I downloaded apt and am
actually using it. the problem is that I have a few packages left in
/var/cache/apt/archives, though I'm (almost) sure they're already
installed. that makes my disk space full and I can't install anything
new.
Is it save to use dpkg --remove? Or what is going on?

  - I have a custom 2.0.36 kernel supporting aic7xxx, is it safe to
replace it
with the standard new one?

  - dselect is unable to configure jadetex because of TeX complaining
about
a \ unknown command when trying to compile the format file.

  - I've got my old kernel (costum 2.0.36) on a floppy, could it still
rescue me if 
ever I have troubles rebooting?

  Thanks for your help,

  Mamoun

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Re: Upgrading from hamm to slink

[Gary L. Hennigan]

Mitch Blevins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| Jiri Baum wrote:
|  Hello,
|  
|   I've decided I can't wait any longer and want to perform the upgrade
|   from hamm to slink this weekend. Is there anything I need to watch out
|   for?
|  
|  __register_frame_info
|  
|  Not sure if the fix has progressed from Incoming yet, but the
|  problem breaks 
|  dselect and apt.
| 
| Don't do it yet.  The current version of libc6 conflicts with the current
| version of dpkg.  It's a bad thing.

Shoot! If I'd gotten your warning about 2 hours earlier I'd be sitting 
pretty. Unfortunately, now I'm stuck. How/when will this be fixed?

Fortunately, my system is still usable, and some of the stuff upgraded 
quite nicely so I'm not desperate, yet!

Thanks,
Gary

Re: Upgrading from hamm to slink

[David Coe]

I don't know that this is a sensible solution,
but it worked for me.  The new libc6 conflicts
with recent versions of dpkg, but not with
the one in hamm; so I downgraded dpkg by
manually installing it from hamm, then
was able to install the new libc6 without
losing everything else that depends on dpkg.

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Re: Upgrading from hamm to slink

[Jiri Baum]

Hello,

 I've decided I can't wait any longer and want to perform the upgrade
 from hamm to slink this weekend. Is there anything I need to watch out
 for?

__register_frame_info

Not sure if the fix has progressed from Incoming yet, but the problem breaks
dselect and apt.


HTH

Jiri [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upgrading from hamm to slink

[Mitch Blevins]

Jiri Baum wrote:
 Hello,
 
  I've decided I can't wait any longer and want to perform the upgrade
  from hamm to slink this weekend. Is there anything I need to watch out
  for?
 
 __register_frame_info
 
 Not sure if the fix has progressed from Incoming yet, but the problem breaks
 dselect and apt.

Don't do it yet.  The current version of libc6 conflicts with the current
version of dpkg.  It's a bad thing.

-Mitch

Upgrading from hamm to slink

[Gary L. Hennigan]

I've decided I can't wait any longer and want to perform the upgrade
from hamm to slink this weekend. Is there anything I need to watch out
for? My plan is to first upgrade to the latest version of apt (I think
I'm using 0.16 on my hamm system) and then just firing off an apt-get
dist-upgrade from a slink mirror on my local disk. Any caveats? Any
documents I should read first?

TIA,
Gary