Re: [PLUG] debian upgrade confusion

[Bill Jonas <bill@billjonas.com>]

On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 03:39:33PM -0500, Darxus@chaosreigns.com wrote:
> But you are going into debian unstable.  Things may very well break.
> 
> Actually, I strongly incourage using debian testing instead of debian
> unstable.  It is, in my opinion, the best of both worlds, and I use it on
> both of my workstations (at work and home).

Woody is testing; sid is unstable.  ("encourage", BTW.  apt-get install
ispell.)

> Perhaps the cleanest solution would be to add the testing or unstable
> source lines to your apt sources:

Problem is, gnumeric has a freaking lot of dependencies.  I count nine
lines of packages for its Depends: lines.  Most of them are libraries,
which means that for most of them you'll need the corresponding
development package.  (If it depends on libfoo, you'll generally need to
install libfoo-dev in order to compile it.)  *Then* you'll need to
install the new versions of all those libraries.  And since you'll only
have unstable or testing as a deb-src line (instead of a deb line) in
your sources.list, you'll have to install them all manually, thus
negating the major benefit of using Debian.

In response to the initial 404 question, give it a few hours.  I've
often noticed that the problem resolves itself given a little time.  My
theory is that the mirrors have started updating from master.debian.org
(or wherever all the mirrors are synced from), have gotten the new
Packages (and related) files, but haven't actually gotten all the new
.deb files yet.  Anyway, I'm presently doing a dist-upgrade on my system
(admittedly, already Debian unstable) and I was able to download all the
packages, and they're installing now without any trouble.  If you're
impatient, you might try just attempting the dist-upgrade again right
away; http.us.debian.org has four A records (round-robin DNS), so the
next attempt might hit a different server that has already finished
syncing.

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Bill Jonas    *    bill@billjonas.com    *    http://www.billjonas.com/
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