Re: etch upgrade problem

On Monday 09 April 2007 19:04, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 09:41:06AM -0500, Seth Goodman wrote:
I've started an upgrade from Sarge to Etch through the Synaptic Package
manager under Gnome. The package repositories all look for stable. I
selected the "normal" level of questions from the terminal interface.

Please note that the release notes that cover the upgrade say _not_ to
try it via X, to use aptitude from the command line.

Doug.

Perhaps it's not a good idea upgrading while X is running, but the only
problems I've ever had were when upgrading from Woody to Sarge. I seem to
remember X being shutdown, and having to continue the upgrade from the
command line.

I've recently upgraded a Sarge install to Etch with X running, and including
the transition from Xfree 86 to Xorg, and have had no problems, and whenever
there have been X updates to Etch, I've just let them go ahead with the
Xserver running with no problems. Perhaps I've just got away with it, or
maybe the X updates arn't applied until I next reboot the machine.

Anyway Debian rocks, especially with version upgrades. I also have Fedora Core
versions on my 2 machines, but have never upgraded from one version to the
next. I have seen so many problems with this on the Fedora list. Upgrading
from FC5 to FC6, and loads of FC5 packages being left on the machine. I've
always done fresh installs of the latest Fedora version, but Debian seems to
handle the version upgrades a lot better.

I'm sending this from Kmail on FC2, but have Etch running on the other
machine. Not the Sarge to Etch upgrade I've recently done, but the Woody to
Sarge, then kept on testing, which moved up to Etch when Sarge went stable.
This recently has had the sources changed to point to Etch rather than
testing when I saw that Etch was soon to become stable.

Now that Etch is stable I think I will put this Etch install back on testing,
and see how Lenny goes.

I'm not so close to the edge that I'm going to try Sid though. lol.

So currently apart from Fedora FC1,2,3,4,5, and 6, Slackware 10.0, Gentoo
(which on dialup I havn't updated for ages, as it takes forever), and not
forgetting Kubuntu, I have 1 Sarge install, 1 Etch install, and 1 Etch
install which I am about to put back on testing. Hope that doesn't mess up
all the music apps I have installed on it!!

Nigel.


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