Sid to Hoary... Hoary to Sid

[Jamon Camisso]

What with just becoming familiar with Debain based systems and having 
started with Woody, moved to Ubunutu Warty and then to Hoary, I'm 
curious as to how one would properly and completely (if possible) 
migrate from Hoary Hedgehog to Sid.

Note: I have no real reason for doing this. Other than to explore and 
learn about how apt works, and to somehow get Sid installed on my 
Reiserfs disc (just because I want to), there is no pressing reason for 
me to be messing around. That being said, I don't mind formatting discs 
and installing an OS. If it stays on my machine for more than a month... 
well nothing ever has... Hence I am not at all worried about my data 
since the disc I'm using is reserved for mucking about.

I've tried changing repositories but not all the proper packages get 
removed/installed. Should I be setting some pin options? If so, what 
should they be? If not... well... what then?

Mike Newman wrote:

>On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:18:03 -0500, Lennart Sorensen
><lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>  
>
>>I have only used dist-upgrade for the last 6 years and it has always
>>worked great for me, so I never use upgrade.
>>    
>>
>In fact, if you use the (IMO excellent) Synaptic it now does
>dist-upgrade by default (although I believe they call it "smart
>upgrading" or some such...)
>Definitely a good move, though.
>
>Slightly OT: I just migrated my Sid machine to Ubuntu Hoary Hedgehog.
>Basically I just had to change the repositories in my sources.list and
>run update and dist-upgrade.
>
>  
>
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