On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 12:55:09AM -0600, Carlo U. Segre wrote: > > I have a dozen or so debian boxes which I have been reluctant to upgrade > up to now. I read in the apt README that it can be used to do a major > upgrade such as the 1.3 to 2.0. I have been unsuccessful up to now but > maybe it is just my ignorance. The problems I am encountering are that > the only version of apt that I can find 0.1.8 which requires libc6 in > order to work at all. This means that I need to use the autoup script > before trying apt-get. This is not what I understood from the README but > maybe it is the only way. > > Any suggestions?
I think you can find apt for bo (1.3) at http://www.debian.org/~jgg There is also a bo version in the /install (I think) directory on the Debian 2.0 CD I bought (long ago) from http://www.netgod.net I did the bo->hamm apt-get dist-upgrade to one machine recently and am about to do it to more than 10 more, and it was pretty smooth. You may run into problems if you have any ro nfs mounts that any of the install scripts want to create directory entries on (kbd and perl both mess with /usr/local/ BTW). The other thing is that upgrading via autoup.sh leaves behind more information if something goes wrong. But use script to make a typescript of the whole bloody process and you should be fine. Oh, one other thing. If the process fails because you need to go into another vc and manually create a directory or something, just go back to the original vc and restart apt-get dist-upgrade. It's very smart about figuring out where it left off and proceeding forward smoothly. It also _seems_ to be true that it doesn't do a complete upgrade. You'll want to go into dselect after it's done (use the apt access method) and finish things up. And if you really need any of the libc5 *-dev packages you'll have to re-install those (apt will toss them all at the beginning of the upgrade). Luck, Pann -- Pann McCuaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] PO Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155 Technical Manager Phone: (206) 782-7733 ext 122 SSC, Inc. www.ssc.com Fax: (206) 782-7191 Linux Journal www.linuxjournal.com
