On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 11:25:26PM +0000, Martin WHEELER wrote: > On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Joey Hess wrote: ... > > And things broke. This is a suprise? > > Yes. > Shouldn't it be? Please explain. > (This is the method I have used to incrementally upgrade my installation > for the past two years -- without problem.) > Why should I expect things to break using this method? > [This is a genuine query. Don't understand your stance. Really.]
If it isn't labelled "stable", things may break. If you try to updgrade the whole distribution plus a bunch of 3rd party software to an unstable snapshot of a not-yet-released distro... well, _I_ would expect things to break. All of them. So yes, you should expect thing to break in these circumstances. I was fortunate: I had a clean box so I could load up minimal potato, upgrade to testing and then install the stuff I need. That was painless. > But I doubt whether any developer could reproduce this system exactly > without an accurate image of my machine state; so I'll start with the > big problem (apache) and try to send in a fuller description of all the > problems encountered once I've sussed how to do 'proper' bug reports, > and where to send them. FWIW, purging apache-perl and installing apache and mod-perl fixed that for me. Dima -- E-mail dmaziuk at bmrb dot wisc dot edu (@work) or at crosswinds dot net (@home) I'm going to exit now since you don't want me to replace the printcap. If you change your mind later, run -- magicfilter config script