Re: [Sheflug] Re: Debian/XFree Update

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 10:00:10AM +0100, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> I found out to my cost just how bad Debian really is at the weekend.  
> Updated with apt-get and the whole process barfed badly in the 
> middle. So, now I've got a complete system that it usable but cannot 

	We might be of help (fair loat of "debianites" on the list) if
you give a bit more detail. What do you mean by "barfing badly"? From
the Diccionary of Computing:
 3. To fail to work because of unacceptable input, perhaps with
      a suitable error message, perhaps not.

> be updated with either apt-get or deselect.   And, no one on the 

	Usually, one has to be careful with updatest to sid, as things
in dpkg and places like that tend to explode (libc and perl also tend to
fail more often than not). However, in 3-4 years running debian in
different incarnations, I only had serious trouble once or twice, and
that was fixed in a couple of hours anyway.

	As I said before, you need to provide more input rather than
just saying "things don't work".

	Regards,
	José
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