On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 08:45:50PM +0100, Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> was heard to say: > On 2008-12-17 20:14 +0100, Robert Hodgins wrote: > > This one is recent: > > http://www.ducea.com/2008/12/08/howto-upgrade-from-debian-etch-to-lenny/ > > Seems to be okay, if terse. One caveat, though: it has been reported > several times (and I could reproduce it) that the "aptitude full-upgrade" > step will remove all the X.Org video drivers if you accept aptitude's > first suggestion, see http://bugs.debian.org/502285 for instance. > Therefore I recommend to let aptitude try different solutions until it > finds one that does not remove too many packages.
Hm, it might be easier to type "r ~n^xserver-xorg-video-.* UNINST" at the resolver prompt first, to skip over all those solutions at once. (that reminds me, I should finish up the implementation of command-line / sticky resolver hints in the squeeze branch... maybe something to do over xmas...) Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
