dpkg error on apt-get upgrade

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 08:36:40PM -0400, Giles Orr wrote:
> Sounds about right: basically you would change any occurrence of the
> word "testing" (or "stable" if that's what you're using) to "sid" or
> "unstable".  Either the name or the "status" works.  Then update and
> probably "full-upgrade" rather than "upgrade".  Kernels aren't usually
> installed automatically (my experience, don't know the official
> policy), but even if one is, the old one should still be there and
> usable: they aren't removed automatically for sure.  (If it offers any
> reassurance, I did the name search-and-replace dance many times with
> Ubuntu installs - now that I'm running Debian almost exclusively I
> tend to leave my systems on "testing" pretty much all the time.)

upgrade sucks, dist-upgrade always works, never heard of full-upgrade.

New kernels will be pulled in if you have the meta pacakge
linux-image-2.6-cputype installed which depends on the current kernel.
The kernel in unstable isn't tracked right away by the meta package
though.

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