Hi testing people, Joey Hess posted to -user asking for reports of installs to be posted here, so here is my report. Any responses should be CC'd to me, as I'm not on this list. I downloaded 2 of the 3 test-2 images from mirror.aarnet.edu.au (they are the ones with non-us on them). I performed the upgrade with apt using the apt-cdrom entries in my sources.list. I upgraded with dist-upgrade. My system was mainly slink, but already had a bit of old potato, including libc2.1, as I had upgraded a few packages that I couldn't afford to be without a while ago. The upgrade was successful, but far from smooth. The first problem that I has was with telnet-ssl. Unfortunately I wasn't in a position to take detailed notes, but basically it wouldn't uninstall because it would have had to symlink a man page over an existing man page. I tried a few different --force options, including -overwrite, and -overwrite-diverted, but nothing worked. Eventually I went an manually changed the /var/lib/dpkg/status file to say that it had been uninstalled. Certainly not an impossible situation, but not one that I would expect a newbie to be able to fix. The rest of the install was pretty painless, except for the fact that I had to run dist-upgrade about 6 time (literally) before everything was done. I'd run it, it'd do a heap of stuff, ask me some questions maybe, and finish (often, but not always, saying there had been at least one error). Then I'd run it again to make sure it had everything, and it'd go an install/upgrade another bunch of packages. At first I thought that it was reinstalling the ones it had just installed, but it was all new stuff. Back in the bad-old-days when we used dpkg to upgrade the system, one learnt that you'd probably have to run it a few times to get it all working. I would have thought that apt could have handled this better, or at least warned the user that it was going to have to be run a few times. I don't know if this is my particular set-up or not, but I can imagine that newbies would have a very hard time working this out. Appart from that, it seemed to work pretty well. I have quite a few packages that weren't on those two CDs (including non-free stuff, like Netscape), which still need to upgraded, but that's about 80 meg (including some helix-gnome stuff) which I can't be bothered downloading over the modem at the moment, so it isn't quite complete yet. Appart from a few issues (imwheel stopped working, xfstt fonts aren't loaded by default into x (but that may be a helix issue) it seems to be working well. I must say, the need to put a custom kernel package on hold is a bitch, and I'm sure it's going to burn lots of people. Appart from that, I have no major complaints. cheers, damon -- Damon Muller (dm-sig6@empire.net.au) / It's not a sense of humor. * Criminologist / It's a sense of irony * Webmeister / disguised as one. * Linux Geek / - Bruce Sterling - Running Debian GNU/Linux: Doing my bit for World Domination (tm) -
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