Torben Nehmer wrote:
> Potato works fine as a server. The few packages that are missing are
> easily either selfcompiled or used from testing.
I want something that upgrades easily and smoothly, so I'll only
deviate from packages where there's absolutely no alternative (Midgard
comes to mind :| ). Specifically, apt-get update/dist-upgrade must remain
to work.
> The upgrade of my system from potato to sid went fine (more or less). I
> had some problems with broken dependencies, but after a littlebit fixing
> and testing (a boot floppy can be _very_ valuable there) it worked without
> problems.
I'd expect (and got) dependency problems while going from potato to sid
on my workstation. I hadn't expected them at all for stable -> testing. I
installed stable (from CD), aded the testing sources.list lines, apt-get
update, apt-get dist-upgrade, and spent about 4 hours with dpkg -r,
dpkg -i --force-conflicts and (apt-get -f install, dist-upgrade) x way-too-much
to get it back in order. It works now, but as far as the upgrade procedure
is concerned, it might easily have looked like a -> Sid upgrade to a
bystander. Frustrating, as I had just been exhalting the smooth Debian
upgrade procedure to the victim^[bCowner.
Emile
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