[Herts] RE: Debian from Woody to Sarge?

[nicolas]

Hi,

Sorry for the length of this email.. 

Just tried to do apt-get update on my server and got..

apt-get update
Err http://www.backports.org stable/postfix Packages
  404 Not Found
Ign http://www.backports.org stable/postfix Release
Err http://www.backports.org stable/courier Packages
  404 Not Found
Ign http://www.backports.org stable/courier Release
Err http://www.backports.org stable/wget Packages
  404 Not Found
Ign http://www.backports.org stable/wget Release
Err http://www.backports.org stable/proftpd Packages
  404 Not Found
Ign http://www.backports.org stable/proftpd Release
Err http://www.backports.org stable/postfix Sources
  404 Not Found
Ign http://www.backports.org stable/postfix Release
Err http://www.backports.org stable/courier Sources
  404 Not Found
Ign http://www.backports.org stable/courier Release
Err http://www.backports.org stable/wget Sources
  404 Not Found
Ign http://www.backports.org stable/wget Release
Err http://www.backports.org stable/proftpd Sources
  404 Not Found
Ign http://www.backports.org stable/proftpd Release
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Release
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/contrib Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/contrib Release
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/non-free Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/non-free Release
Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/main Packages
Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/main Release
Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/contrib Packages
Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/contrib Release
Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/non-free Packages
Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/non-free Release
Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/main Sources
Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/main Release
Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/contrib Sources
Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/contrib Release
Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/non-free Sources
Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/non-free Release
Failed to fetch
http://www.backports.org/debian/dists/stable/postfix/binary-i386
/Packages  404 Not Found
Failed to fetch
http://www.backports.org/debian/dists/stable/courier/binary-i386
/Packages  404 Not Found
Failed to fetch
http://www.backports.org/debian/dists/stable/wget/binary-i386/Pa
ckages  404 Not Found
Failed to fetch
http://www.backports.org/debian/dists/stable/proftpd/binary-i386
/Packages  404 Not Found
Failed to fetch
http://www.backports.org/debian/dists/stable/postfix/source/Sour
ces  404 Not Found
Failed to fetch
http://www.backports.org/debian/dists/stable/courier/source/Sour
ces  404 Not Found
Failed to fetch
http://www.backports.org/debian/dists/stable/wget/source/Sources
  404 Not Found
Failed to fetch
http://www.backports.org/debian/dists/stable/proftpd/source/Sour
ces  404 Not Found
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old
ones used
 instead.

Then (Just out of interest)

apt-get -u upgrade

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back
  apache apache-common bsdutils courier-authdaemon courier-base
courier-pop
  cpio libpcre3 libssl0.9.6 lynx mount mysql-client mysql-server ntp
  ntp-simple openssl php4 php4-mysql proftpd proftpd-common python2.1
  util-linux zlib1g
The following packages will be upgraded
  mysql-common
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 23  not
upgraded.
Need to get 34.2kB of archives. After unpacking 12.3kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.

=
Backports.org now points to Sarge ports not Woody hence the broken
links?

I was just after peoples thoughts / URL's on the best / safest way to
move this all to Sarge, ideally avoiding backports, as the few packages
I use "must" be in Sarge by now.


Thanks!!!

Regards
Nicolas 

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