X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/156c92f39db043b9a551966cbdb60523d7df9100..5a21b31fbaf9c7d7c6c8b01f8f09477a7e5f9e31:/blog/data/2010-06-13-debian-upgrades.txt diff --git a/blog/data/2010-06-13-debian-upgrades.txt b/blog/data/2010-06-13-debian-upgrades.txt index c3eb5cb7ef..385274a1a9 100644 --- a/blog/data/2010-06-13-debian-upgrades.txt +++ b/blog/data/2010-06-13-debian-upgrades.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ finally made the upgrade logs available from http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/debian-upgrade-testing/. I am now testing dist-upgrade of Gnome and KDE in a chroot using both apt and aptitude, and found their differences interesting. This time -I focus on their removal plans.

+I will only focus on their removal plans.

After installing a Gnome desktop and the laptop task, apt-get wants to remove 72 packages when dist-upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze. The @@ -27,11 +27,12 @@ too surprising.

I guess the removal of xorg during upgrades should be investigated and avoided, and perhaps others as well. Here are the complete list -of removals. The complete logs is available from the URL above. Note -if you want to repeat these tests, that the upgrade test for -kde+apt-get hung in the tasksel setup because of dpkg asking conffile -questions. No idea why. I worked around it by using 'echo >> -/proc/pidofdpkg/fd/0' to tell dpkg to continue.

+of planned removals. The complete logs is available from the URL +above. Note if you want to repeat these tests, that the upgrade test +for kde+apt-get hung in the tasksel setup because of dpkg asking +conffile questions. No idea why. I worked around it by using +'echo >> /proc/pidofdpkg/fd/0' to tell dpkg to +continue.

apt-get gnome 72
bluez-gnome cupsddk-drivers deskbar-applet gnome