[plug] Debian broken

[Tomasz Grzegurzko]

On 5/1/07, Denis Brown <dsbrown at cyllene.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
>
> At 11:47 AM 1/05/2007, Bret Busby wrote:
> >On Tue, 1 May 2007, Tomasz Grzegurzko wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > From the response above, from Tomasz, to upgrade to etch, do I just need
> > to use the two commands
> >apt-get update
> >apt-get dist upgrade
> >and use the above sources file?
> >
> >Or, is there something else I neeed to do?
>
> For what it's worth, I took a Debian sarge and upgraded to etch
> recently.    I found the documentation on the Debian site excellent
> especially as in my case, I was going from an earlier 2.4 series kernel to
> the 2.6 series.
>
> Nonetheless it was reasonably plain sailing and I did it remotely (ssh
> into
> the box) so did not have to visit the physical site :-)   The instructions
> encouraged me to use aptitude rather than apt-get and I must say it is
> friendlier - more informative messages for example.
>
> I think that if you have a more up-to-date sarge than mine, one using an
> already-compatible kernel for example, you should find Tomasz's
> instructions will work nicely.   But caveat emptor in respect of what
> seems
> to be your semi-sarge, semi-etch.    I would definitely back up mission
> critical files before setting sail.
>
> HTH
> Denis



Thanks Denis.

For what it's worth, a dist-downgrade is possible (Etch->sarge, or whatever)
if you really need to...
Big warning around that process though: it's very manual, error prone, and
you'd better be comfortable with dpkg ;)

Tomasz
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