Re: Upgrade docs and Release Notes (was Re: Starting second test cycle)
On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 05:13:39PM +0200, J.A. Bezemer wrote:
>
> On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Stephen R. Gore wrote:
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> > Josip Rodin wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 10:55:24PM +0200, J.A. Bezemer wrote:
> > > > I know you can upgrade by mounting each CD consequtively etc. That's the
> > > > way 2.0->2.1 was done. You can also upgrade by dpkg -i
> > > > /cdrom/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/xxx/yyy.deb for each and every
> > > > package, which is just slightly more horrible.
> > >
> > > No, it's not, don't overexaggerate. The CDs I had were selfconsistent, so
> > > it was quite painless. My memory may be deceiving me, but I honestly don't
> > > remember having to do anything awkward to get that upgrade done.
> >
> > Has anyone tried the dpkg-multicd method wrt upgrading slink->potato?
>
> I haven't, and I don't want to try either. Since it doesn't do dependency
> ordering during _install_, it may (Murphy: will) break your system if anything
> fails halfway through.
Umm...any method can break your system if it fails halfway through :)
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