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Re: dist-upgrade from buster fails badly

From Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: dist-upgrade from buster fails badly
Date 2021-02-12 15:10 +0100
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On Fri 12 Feb 2021 at 08:02:02 -0500, 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 probably the most common way to get sid and what I would
recommend. However, sid may be installed directly from the archives
using the mini.iso.

-- 
Brian.

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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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