Subject: Re: Upgrade notes...

From: [email-masked] (Bruce Perens)
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 96 11:49 PDT

From: Dale Scheetz <[email-masked]>

> There have been a number of requests for upgrade notes. I have been
> pointing these people to my machine for my notes and upgrade script. 
> Is there any reason that I should not put these files into debian/upgrade?
> I have uploaded them to my home directory on master, so if you give the go
> ahead, I can move them into debian/upgrade from there. I suspect a posting
> to debian-announce would then be in order, as well as some kind of regular
> posting to debian-user in response to those users who still ask.
> Does this sound ok to you?

I think it would be fine to move them into unstable/upgrade-i386 .

Please have Ray set up the appropriate web page links. Note that I've
tried to make the disks-i386/current directory as web-browser-friendly
as possible (look at the README, and the file suffixes). That might be
worth emulating.

[ATTENTION IAN JACKSON] I also think the a.out version of dpkg belongs
in the upgrade directory, rather than in the unstable/binary-i386/base
directory, because I don't want people to upgrade an ELF dpkg to a.out .
Let's wait to get Ian's call on that.

	Thanks

	Bruce
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From: Guy Maor <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 19:59:06 -0500 (CDT)

> Let's wait to get Ian's call on that.

Huh?  that's how it is right now.

Guy

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From: Ian Jackson <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 96 02:09 BST

> I think it would be fine to move them into unstable/upgrade-i386 .

Please put my upgrade instructions in the same directory, at least as
prominently.  There should be no problems with them, that I know of at
the moment, though they do require an up-to-date Packages file.

These instructions are:

1. Install by hand the latest version of the a.out dpkg from the
upgrades directory, eg `dpkg --install dpkg-1.2.4.deb'.

2. Run dselect.  Go through Access/Update/Select/Install/Remove in
order, using the unstable tree.  (This will get them the latest ELF
dpkg.)

I know that they're very short, but that's the whole point of having a
fancy package management system and a powerful front-end like dselect.

NOTE: when we release 1.1 and make `stable' point to it you'll have to
tell people to make dselect use `stable' rather than `unstable', of
course.

Ian.