On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 01:08:03PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: > hey guys, > i would finally like to pull one of my systems up to testing, but i > still can't really afford losing it, so i am a little cautious. i > guess i would simply like to know if anyone of you had previous bad > experiences with the dist-upgrade. i am on a laptop, currently running > potato with a custom kernel 2.4.4 and pcmcia-cs build. should i just > do it? it isn't reversible, is it? >
I went potato -> woody on my home system about a week ago, and got sidetracked for a bit by a couple of bugs, both of which are documented in the Debian bug system. I was able to work through both, and am very happy with woody on that machine. However, my production server is gonna stay potato for now :P. Early in the install, perl got into a state where it could not find Glob.pm. This hosed installation scripts on several packages, preventing them from configuring, which blocked many more packages. I was able to work through this one by figuring out which perl packages *would* install and installing them manually via dpkg -i . This went quickly, since the required packages were alrealy sitting in apt's cache. I had a hard time getting an xserver to configure (either version 3 SVGA or the version 4 server). The postinstall script failed. I saw in the bug data base where Brandon directed the person who reported this bug to use a specific commandline to run the postinstall script manually. I did this on my machine. The script still exited with an error, but something changed, and one more trip through configure resulted in a correctly configured server. I am using ximian gnome 1.4, and got into a dependency conflict with gnomeprint or something to do with gnumeric. I just ditched gnomeprint and gnumeric rather than spending time figuring out a fix. Hope this helps. Mike rather than spending time figuring out a fix.
