[Sussex] "pre-depend" error upgrading to Woody

[Gavin Stevens]

Feeling somewhat ill-prepared for upgrading to Woody as a result of the 
error I encountered, I decided to do some reading & increase my knowledge a 
little more & get better prepared in the process.

I now have a good few pages of notes, mostly a mix of the Debian docs for 
upgrading from a previous version & the most helpful responses of Steve & 
Thomas.

My plan is (& thoughts are welcome on this) to upgrade using the CDs, then 
activate the URLs afterwards & get security updates etc. My thinking is 
that this will be more manageable from a time point of view (ie - I won't 
suddenly find myself with a lengthy net session when I don't expect it or 
can't do it at that time).

One further question, if I may: I take heed of Steve & Thomas's warning on 
dselect & I am planning on using apt-get. However, the Debian docs strongly 
urge using dselect for upgrading in preference to apt-get. I do not doubt 
the words of Steve & Thomas, but I would be interested to know why dselect 
is so bad for upgrading - I presume the warnings are based on bitter 
experience. What does it do wrong?

Gavin.

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 22:55:25 +0000 (GMT), Thomas Adam 
<thomas_adam16 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> --- Steve Dobson <steve at dobson.org> wrote:
>
>> It may also be worth first upgraging just the apt & dpkg packages:
>> # apt-get install apt dpkg
>> first just incase it is something that was fixed there.
>
> This is exactly right -- this is what the error is meaning. Upgrading
> those two packages before hand will help, hence:
>
> apt-get install apt dpkg && apt-get -u update && apt-get -u dist-upgrade
>
> -- Thomas Adam
>
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> :)"
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