"G. Snyder" wrote:
<SNIP>
> probably leave you with a working system. "apt-get dist-upgrade" has
> only produced disasterous results for me....I cannot overemphasize
> disasterous. Basically everything hangs, and when you reboot, you get a
> lot of junk in the boot messages until the whole thing just locks up.
>
Interesting.Using the sources listed on my web-page I kept my sytem
uptodate
to potato without any major problem.That was before
Potato-Test-Cycle-3(last week).
Disclaimer-Can't say for sure about SAT and SAS since I don't use
them,but
there are potato version compiled by Stormix.
The only problems I've seen are :
1: lilo.If you run lilo again(you don't have to) you lose the graphical
menu.
The stormix version can be reinstalled.
2: kdm :you lose the background and the stormix logo.I managed to get
them back once,it's not that hard.
3.If you use kde then you have to make sure that
/etc/alternatives/x-window-manager points to /usr/bin/kde
4.the file /etc/network have to be renamed(deleted) otherwise the
netbase
postinst script will fail(I think this was at TestCycle1,don't remember
if it was fixed at TC3)
> Also, using Storm Package Manager (I don't know how you could use SAS)
> is possibly not the best idea, since programs which are running at the
> time may hang.
Actually it would be a good idea to logoff then killall kdm(gdm)(xdm)
> If you want a representative view of potato, go to the
> Stormlinux-testers-list archives for July since, (correct me if I am
> wrong, you beta testers) the test version of the next release is
> essentially just "potato" anyway. It seems like the beta testers are
> more prone to admitting the "cons" in the interest of ironing out the
> bugs before the next stable distribution release...in any case, you will
> get an idea of the problems you could potentially have with some of the
> applications if you upgrade right now.
The beta archive won't help too much in this case since the packages we
are speaking about are different than a regular Debian potato-I mean
the Stormix
specific ones.Different enough that it won't help here IMHO .
> Good luck!
> -Glen
>
Out of curiosity have you used the same sources I have listed?
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deb ftp://ftp.stormix.com/debian potato main
deb ftp://ftp.stormix.com/storm potato main
deb ftp://ftp.kde.tdyc.com/debian potato kde contrib
deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/ potato non-US/main non-US/contrib
non-US/non-free
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