for broken libraries and lynx, I had absolutely no problems when upgrading from potato to woody... I'm not sure what went wrong with yours, but I ran woody up till the time it was released and had no problems. On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Erik Heil wrote: > Hi everyone. > OK, I'm just going to post my comments on the Woody distro here. Hopefully I don't start a flame war or anything, but the comments are just as a result of what I've experienced first hand. so here goes. > 1. When doing a full upgrade from Potato, I get errors relating to modprobe. I also get unresolved symbols. note that I really don't use /etc/modules.conf, as I usually just load modules from scripts. > 2. After upgrading, Exim is broken. > 3. At least in in my case, SSL libraries were broken, so I had to recompile them. Ditto for Lynx. But I was able to fix this. > 4. Apt installed a lot of packages that were unecissary. In my case, it downloaded about 150MB of data. It install GTK and other stuff which is not necissary. > 5. After upgrading, les complains about an object error, but still functions fine. Minor annoyance, but I can deal with it. > > In my opinion, Woody isn't ready for distrobution. Perhaps this may be unique to my configuration, but their are just too many unresolved issues. Luckilly, I have a few other Linux boxes still running Potato hre. Have any of you experienced any of these problems? BC what I'd do is just assemble the responses, and post a bunch of bug reports to the Bug Tracking system. if any of you want to e-mail me off-list, feel free too at eheil at rcn.com. > > > Erik > <eheil at rcn.com> > -- Deedra Waters <dmwaters at dmwaters.org> Web-page http://www.dmwaters.org Make sure your E-mail can be read by everyone! http://www.betips.net/etc/evilmail.html Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
