On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 11:13:04AM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > Thought I'd post my experiences here with my Potato to Woody upgrade. > Being a idiot, I haven't followed this list for awhile and didn't read > the release notes until after the upgrade but I think the results may be > interesting nonetheless. Unfortunately I didn't use the script command > but I kept pretty good notes. > > 1. Installed potato from CDROM and http to get latest stuff including > security entry. > 2. Added woody to sources.list > 3. apt-get update > 4. apt-get -u dist-upgrade
Not upgrading dpkg and apt first is likely the cause of man-db, xfonts-base, and xbase-clients going missing. > Section 3.3.1 says "early versions use static versions of dpkg and apt, > 2.1 or later can use installed apt and dpkg". > > Here many people have suggested in this forum that the apt and dpkg > should be upgraded to woody first and then procede with the whole > process. I think this should be added to the notes. Yes, it should be. > This is where the suggestions diverge with some saying there should be > a script etc.for ugrade. > > Is it possible to create a upgrade-woody package that depends on dpkg > and apt and any other prerequisites that loads them and then as a post > process starts apt-get(the new version) to do the actually upgrade? No, because where would you put such a script, and how would you update it? This is a chicken-and-egg problem - it's easier and safer to document the procedure in the release notes. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
