I've had little trouble with Potato. The only glitches I ever run into are when some random package in the unstable branch is updated, and several packages with dependencies on it aren't caught up. apt-get will typically "hold" these packages back, until the mess is straightened out. dselect is less "competent" when dealing with this problem.
If you've been using apt-get and dselect for any length of time, however, you should have no problem getting around this. Bryan On 17-Nov-99 John Gay wrote: > > > Judging from the Debian weekly news recently posted, the main stopping point > for > freezing Potato is the boot floppies. I'm running a Slink system because I am > very new to Linux and UNIX. The only deviation from Slink is I installed an > updated Xserver for my ATI AGP Rage+ video card. I have been compiling new > kernels to try to get USB working for a few projects, but other than that, > I'm > very nervous of upgrading. I recently got a new scanner, because I couldn't > get > the USB one working, but I can't compile xsane or xscanimage because I need > gtk+ > 1.2, which, although gtk does have slink .debs for it, it also requires > xlib6g >>=3.3.4. This, in turn relies on libc6 >=1.2. Both of these requires Potato. >>If > the boot floppies are the main problem with potato, I'd upgrade because I've > already got a working system. But if upgrading is going to break lots of > stuff, > I guess I'll wait till the next millennium. I did have a very bad experience > when I did upgrade libc6 to 1.2 a while ago, then tried to install > StarOffice. > StarOffice insisted on updating some libraries and rendered my system > completely > broken! Even the help of Linux experts couldn't recommend anything but a > complete install. This was back in June, and I think I remember something > about > Potato being in very bad shape at that moment. I now have StarOffice rpm's on > a > CD-ROM I got on a magazine cover, but I haven't installed it yet. > > So, My main question is, other than the boot floppies, is Potato fairly safe > and > stable for a relative newbie? My system doesn't have apt installed, but I > should > be able to use dselect to upgrade. Would it be easier to use dselect to > install > apt via ftp and then use apt to update the rest of my system? > > Thanks again for all the help and for a very tidy and easy to update Linux > system. > > Cheers, > > John Gay > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null
