[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
"Testing" is improving. However, since I've noticed some of the same
problems with conflicting or missing dependencies, I've chosen to install
"stable," use '=' to have dselect hold all packages, and then upgrade them
to testing as needed. So, for example, I go through and install the stable
release, hold all packages, and then I notice that in order to use Yahoo
chat, I have to upgrade Everybuddy. So I tell it to look at the "testing"
tree, change the status of that one back to normal, dselect then tells me
what else I would have to upgrade to install the new version of Everybuddy,
I let it do that much, and everything is fine.
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Allison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Has anyone else been finding upgrades to woody getting better or
harder?
Here's what I did that worked.
replaced 'stable' with 'testing' in the sources.list.
ran the following on command line:
'while true; do apt-get -y dist-select; sleep 30; done'
Eventually it got stupid, I broke the code and ran
'dpkg --configure -a;apt-get -f install'
to clean things up and restarted my 'while true...' loop.
Eventually ( >2 hours) it reached the point where there was nothing more
to do.
I started 'dselect' and worked it from there, putting bad behaving
packages on hold immediately. After a few installs, I started to
release these held packages a few at a time and installing them.
About 6 loops later on, dselect didn't have any complaints about anything.
I've since been adding/removing packages with no problem.
