On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 10:02:29PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 08:32:38AM -0600, Steve Block wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 09:56:37AM +0800, linux china wrote:
> > >Yes, My system is woody, 3.0 r4. could I apt-get upgrade, then system will
> > >be at the same level as sarge? and I could install mysql 5.0 from backport,
> > >I not very sure.
> >
> > You could upgrade to sarge from woody, but I can't tell you that you
> > _should_ do so. There's always the possibility of breaking something. If
> > you do decide to make the upgrade, the general recommendations I gleaned
> > from this list when sarge was released as stable follow:
> >
> > Install aptitude, if you haven't. Change your /etc/apt/sources.list to
> > point to stable or sarge rather than woody. Update your package list
> > with aptitude update, and then attempt the system upgrade with aptitude
> > dist-upgrade. You could use apt-get as well, but my understanding was
> > that aptitude was better at resolving the sort of dependency issues you
> > can get into during a system upgrade.
>
> It might be better to:
> get Woody up to date
> change sources.list to point to Sarge,
oops, should use aptitude from Sarge, so
apt-get update
then
> apt-get install aptitude
> aptitude update
> aptitude upgrade
> aptitude dist-upgrade
>
> If on a production server, plan an outage window!
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