[Sheflug] Re: Debian 3.0 r1

[Richard <richard [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter


> On Libranet (Debian based distro) mailing list, even if you 
>don't change your sources, e.g stable to sid etc.  you should upgrade 
>packages a few at a time. This gives you chance to deal with the odd 
>conflict. It's recommended only to use dist upgrade if you really 
>know what you are doing or are only upgrading a few packages.


Yes.  I've known that for years.  But, most times you do a 
dist-upgrade you find that it works fine. 

I've now switched over to dselect from apt-get to see if that will 
sort things out.  The machine in question has been installing packages 
for two days now after downloading the 470Mb update on a friends 
broadband line.  Tried aptitude, wouldn't play.



-- 
Richard
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