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Re: dist-upgrade from buster fails badly

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On 12/02/2021 13:02, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 12:56:00PM +0000, pioruns2019 wrote:
>> Why You want to upgrade from buster to sid? You have enabled both sid
>> and buster-updates repositories. This won't work, unless you know what
>> you're doing.
>> I suggest to install sid from the scratch, if you want to have sid. If
>> you don't want to have sid, revert back to buster.
>> Also, sid doesn't have debian-security updates, this entry is invalid.
>
> Most of this is correct, except for the part about installing sid
> from scratch.  That's not a thing.  If one wants to run unstable, one
> installs the current stable release, and then upgrades to sid.

That's what OP tried and failed already.
>
> The probem here is that the OP attempted to mix stable and unstable,
> cherry-picking packages from unstable.  This WILL NOT WORK.  Ever.

Of course , agreed.

> If you want to cherry-pick higher-numbered packages from post-stable
> on a stable system, use backports.  Never install a binary package
> from a future release.


That's what I do - running Stable + backports on my server. Rock solid.

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dist-upgrade from buster fails badly "thahn01@t-online.de" <thahn01@t-online.de> - 2021-02-12 12:10 +0100
  Re: dist-upgrade from buster fails badly Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-02-12 12:40 +0100
    AW: dist-upgrade from buster fails badly "thahn01@t-online.de" <thahn01@t-online.de> - 2021-02-12 13:40 +0100
      Re: AW: dist-upgrade from buster fails badly pioruns2019 <pioruns2019@gmx.com> - 2021-02-12 14:00 +0100
        Re: dist-upgrade from buster fails badly Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2021-02-12 14:10 +0100
        Re: dist-upgrade from buster fails badly Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2021-02-12 14:10 +0100
          Re: dist-upgrade from buster fails badly pioruns2019 <pioruns2019@gmx.com> - 2021-02-12 14:40 +0100
          Re: dist-upgrade from buster fails badly Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-02-12 15:10 +0100
      Re: AW: dist-upgrade from buster fails badly pioruns2020 <pioruns2020@gmx.com> - 2021-02-12 14:10 +0100
  Re: dist-upgrade from buster fails badly The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2021-02-12 14:00 +0100
  Re: dist-upgrade from buster fails badly Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2021-02-12 14:00 +0100

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