Thanks Anthony for your prompt & informative reply! --- Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> wrote: > > 1. Would someone please provide a reply email with a workaround for this > > bug? > > There are two db2 problems:
> one is an upgrade ordering problem, > which is fixed by apt-get install'ing libc6 and db2 before anything > else (especially perl). > The other is a compatibility problem with > libdb.so.3 which is (was) a symlink to libdb2.so.something, and evidently > shouldn't've been. > Both these have been fixed recently, and are currently > being built for all arches. So, whwn can a person, wanting to, do a clean upgrade to Woody/testing? It sound like you are saying the upgrade ordering problem has a work around that can be applied now. I.e.: 1. Install base Potato. 2. Update /etc/sources.list: stable -> testing. 3. apt-get update 4. apt-get install libc6 5. apt-get install libdb2 before taking any other upgrade actions. Is that correct? But, how about the compatibility problem? Is it OK to today complete the upgrade by doing: 6. apt-get dist-upgrade ? Or, is it necessary to wait until the packages being built become available? If the latter, specifically: 1. When do you estimate these packages will become available? 2. If these packages are going to first appear in Unstable, and not migrate to testing for (as I understand it) at least 2 weeks of not having had any changes, then what, specifically, would be the procedure to accomplish this upgrade (without upgrading entirely to Unstable) once the packages become available in Unstable? (I.e., what is a complete, specific, procedure for getting the necessary packages installed?) (Would it involve something similar to the procedure in: http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2001/debian-kde-200108/msg00156.html quoted here (Of course, in the case of our task here, we would be using the packages relevent to this problem, not "kde", as in this following examle) ): ************************************************************************* You'll have to install it from "unstable". A brief howto: + Add "unstable" lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list + Create a /etc/apt/preferences file that favours "testing", e.g. Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 777 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 333 + "apt-get -t unstable install kde" Note that the resulting system would be considered, er, unstable. ************************************************************************* Also, what specific package(s) are we waiting for that we will need to install from unstable? Thanks! :) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
