Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> writes:
On 07.06.13 13:20, Trent W. Buck wrote:
For example, anyone doing a simple "dist-upgrade" from Squeeze to Wheezy is likely to completely bugger their system due to apt blowing its heap trying to find an ordering ("could not perform immediate configuration").
Ah, then dist-upgrade remains an unreliable process, even on debain. I'd clone before upgrading, for quick unbuggering, but a process which doesn't work is of limited usefulness.
FWIW, Craig's suggestion of doing upgrades a little bit at a time (on testing/unstable) would fix this -- the problem arises AIUI because there is SO MUCH that has changed between 6 and 7, that apt gives up before it finds an optimal install order.
A dist-upgrade upgrades thousands of files, across hundreds of packages. I'm at a loss to understand how it could be either practical or worthwhile to manually check for stuff-ups across all of them.
Debian releases on average every two years. Whinging about having to be a bit careful once every two years seems a bit picayune.