[SGVLUG] Upgrade problems with Debian apt-get

[Dustin Laurence]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 04:47:30PM -0800, David Lawyer wrote:

> I've been upgrading my Debian testing "distribution" about once a
> year.

Even security updates?  Or do you do just security the rest of the time?

> download (about 36 hours) on my 28.8k modem.  Even 56k wouldn't help
> much as I understand they don't really do 56k.

Who is "they"?  Your ISP?  Debian's servers easily saturate my pipe
at about 300Kbyte/s, so there is no bottleneck on their end.

> additional packages).  So by doing a so called "dist-upgrade" it did
> better.  I also tried various flags to get it to fetch everything.
> I found one package missing from their server but got the same package
> from "unstable" and it works and reported the bug to Debian.

Did this involve a version upgrade (Woody to Sarge, I guess it would
be)?  You have run Debian longer than I have but it seems that version
upgrades don't necessarily "just work" if you do dist-upgrade.  I think
you have to check the release notes first.  I believe that some people
had a hairy time upgrading Woody if they didn't, for example.

No specific advice, sorry.  If you get desperate you might try backing
up your /etc/ files, purging the old package, re-installing the new one
(which you obviously already have downloaded and can do without the
network), and then redo the config by hand based on your old /etc files.

Dustin