Breezy --> Dapper via APT question

C Hamel yogich at sc2000.net
Mon Mar 20 20:24:45 UTC 2006


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On Monday 20 March 2006 13:10, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Please don't top-post.  I know you think it's easier, but I want to respond
> to you _and_ the OP, and you make it difficult.
>
> Michael V. De Palatis wrote:
> > I wouldn't immediately say that sounds too surprising. What kind of
> > packages were they? Oftentimes a dist-upgrade ends up removing a lot
> > of deprecated packages, so it's likely not anything to worry about.
> > But just to be sure, you should look and see what is being removed.
>
> I'd agree for one thing, there's a major ABI change in there resulting in
> lots of current packages (generally libraries) having a 'c2a' suffix.  If
> most of the packages you see being removed begin with "lib" and their names
> only differ from the ones being installed by changing 'c2' to 'c2a', then
> that's fine.
>
> > On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 10:31:58AM -0600, C Hamel wrote:
> >> I plan on using 'apt-get dist-upgrade' to go to the latest Dapper (I
> >> hope).  I did a dry run to see what was going to be done & was concerned
> >> about the fact
> >> that 50 pkgs are going to be removed.  AFAIK I have the default repos in
> >> sources.list:
> >>
> >> deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe main restricted
> >> multiverse
> >> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted
> >> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe
> >> multiverse deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe main
> >> restricted multiverse
> >>
> >> Did I miss any...? Are these correct...?
>
> Yes, and no. :-)  You've repeated "dapper" - one of those should be
> "dapper-updates" (though I don't expect you to find anything in
> dapper-security or dapper-updates, yet).
> --
> derek
So I have! <LOL>  That should help in the future... thanks!! :-)
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	...CH
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