Hello, I just finished an upgrade from woody to sarge and Debian prooved again that it is a very robust system. In total it took arround 2 hours and apart from one major glitch it was very smooth and running the upgrade was comfortable.
The woody system contained already some backports from backports.org and KDE 3.2.2 from kde.org. The major glitch I saw, that after setting sources.list to testing and running apt-get dist-upgrade Then I got very soon the major glitch [...] 849 packages upgraded, 237 newly installed, 26 to remove and 4 not upgraded. 39 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/626MB of archives. After unpacking 431MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] /usr/bin/perl: relocation error: /usr/lib/perl5/auto/Text/Iconv/Iconv.so: un defined symbol: Perl_Gthr_key_ptr Then I started upgrading libc6 and perl with dpkg -i <list of packetnames> dpkg told me the missing packages. I was quite happy that that worked out for me, but there might be some users which can't do that. Could anybody look into that glitch in more detail? I uploaded the transscript to http://alzental-castle2.homelinux.org/woody-sarge-update.txt.gz (please note, not all parts are included, I switched to the console because I feared that X or KDE break eventually. But it did not happen....that was good). The console transscript is http://alzental-castle2.homelinux.org/fix.problem.gz There is also some part missing when I accidentailly continued the upgrade in the wrong xterm (but this is only a relatively boring part after the major problem was fixed). After I managed to get this worked out, I sometimes got conflicts of files which are in two packets. Rerunning apt-get -f dist-upgrade solved that problem ususally. Another issue was that I did find installation manuals for sarge but not upgrade manual. Hope that helps sarge along its way... Thanks for the excellent system, Rainer -- Rainer Dorsch Alzentalstr. 28 D-71083 Herrenberg 07032-919495 Icq: 32550367
