[Nottingham] testing to stable on release day

[Alex Tibbles]

 --- "Haber, Michael" <michael.haber at ntu.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
> OK upgraded them all now.
> Notes for those interested:
> 1) Updating nano failed unless /usr/man/man1
> existed, and this stopped the update. 'mkdir -p
> /usr/man/man1'
filed a nano bug? it might be fixable before the
release.

> 2) Running lilo when the installer offered left the
> machines unbootable. (Just got 'LI' on the boot
> screen). Running lilo after the upgrade worked OK. 
the post-inst of lilo actually depends on fully
installed <something> (libc?). perhaps file a bug?

> 3) The installer removed kde but didn't put it back.
> 'apt-get install kde' after the install did though.
Very strange...

> 4) Got some fairly random dpkg errors during one or
> two installs. Re-runing 'apt-get dist-upgrade' again
> sorted these.
I see occasional errors keeping an unstable machine
up-to-date. I should really file bugs for them. They
tend to be slight mis-orderings of upgrades, with
packages needed being upgraded at the same time.

> 5) Need to 'init S', remount / read-only and convert
> to ext3 at some point. That may involve some work.
Converting to ext3 is trivial (change the fstab fstype
option, create a journal, done!) - I managed it first
time (and was surprised), PROVIDING that you have your
kernel set up right, either with ext3 support compiled
in, or an initrd with the module or ...

Thanks for the info.

alex


	
	
		
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