Re: [Sheflug] Update disk for Potato->Woody?

[Alastair Donlon <nospam [at] netsoc.ucd.ie>]

On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 10:01:37PM +0100, Barrie Bremner wrote:
> Hi All.
> 
> I'm still hankering for Woody - just not the mother-of-all-downloads
> required to achieve it.
> 
> Is there a Potato->Woody CD available anywhere?
> 
> Does a Woody snapshot achieve the same thing?
> 
> I've had a look on Debian.org and Google, and it's not turning up too
> much.
>  
> I don't want to try installing a development Woody - rather apt-get
> over a Potato install, judging by the fact that one of the Debian
> developers has only just managed it with "modified" Woody installers.
> 

Well, I did it with one of those 'mother' downloads, and it worked
fine. Mostly. There was a broken dependency with perl, which caused
debconf to barf at one point, but after that it was a breeze.

I've even got Ximian to install, mostly. The sawfish capplet doesn't
run properly, but I'm sure that'll be fixed RSN (tm).

I can't say about the snapshots, but I can certainly vouch for the
'apt-get upgrade' option . When I did it, it was a painful, but
necessary experience. I can certainly remember that figuring out
all the dependencies meant that most of the packages had to be
installed anyway. My advice would be to go for an 'upgrade' option
from CD, and then an 'update' from the 'net.

A.D.

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