On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 07:10:30AM -0500, Bob Thibodeau wrote: > In my experience, apt-get knows to set up the next versions packaging > tools first, even in a full dist-upgrade. Has someone actually gotten > burnt by this (lately)?
Remember WOODY is still in testing phase. So safety precaution such as Colin propose and I do is a good idea. Some packages has not made it to testing and sitting in unstable. If you blindly do dist-upgrade to testing on a machine with many packages, you my experience problems. With old version of APT, your options to solve issues are limited. So upgrading dpkg and apt is a good thing to do as the first measure. Last time I did this, perl and libc also upgraded. This action does not upgrade X sub system so possible problems are limited. Once WOODY become released, I agree dist-upgrade should work flawlessly. But why you want to make possible issues larger? Once you upgrade APT, you can use /etc/apt/preferences which allow mixing unstable and testing in a controlled fashion. -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://qref.sourceforge.net/quick/ +
