How to verify if 'upgrade' worked?

rip · 07-27-2005, 06:08 AM

Upgrade question.
I have been running Sarge (testing) for about a year, running an occasional apt-get update/upgrade. When the big release occurred a few weeks ago, I stopped doing this because I didn't know if I needed to change anything to get the new version of testing.

Last night I read a few posts which said that apt-get update && apt-get upgrade would be ok if repositories pointed to 'testing'. Mine did, so I ran the upgrade.

Everything seems ok afterwards.

How can I verify the upgrade got the new 'testing' branch?
Is there a command that will display something like " ... running Sarge ..." or " ... running Etch ..." ?

Nathanael · 07-27-2005, 08:44 AM

the directory 'testing' within the repository of apt, always points to the current testing version of debian (basically a symlink)
as long as it says 'testing' in you apt sources file, you are fine.
sarge and etch are just codenames. the packages in those directoruies is what you should be interested in. it does not matter if packages are available under a different codename. the important part is, which packages (or which package versions) are installed on you computer.

as you wrote that you souces file does point to testing on not to sarge, you are fine... for you, nothing has ever changed, appart from the fact that you no longer run debian sarge but debian etch... everything else is still the same.

juanjavier_xxx · 07-27-2005, 09:44 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by rip
When the big release occurred a few weeks ago, (...) I didn't know if I needed to change anything to get the new version of testing.

---That reminds me of the sarge/testing/etch jam that arised when the first netintall cd was released buggy just the day Sarge became 'stable'....because the /etc/apt/sources.list that used to write was still pointing to 'testing'

...So when you went for a Sarge installation you ended up installing Etch if you were not aware

Axo · 07-28-2005, 05:02 AM

"cat /etc/debian_version" will give an idea what your running also.

rip · 07-28-2005, 08:30 AM

At work I run Fedora core 3 and 'cat /etc/redhat-release' shows "Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg)" .
On Debian, there is less info. Before I upgraded, a 'cat /etc/debian_version' showed just "3.1" and nothing else. Afterwards it showed "testing/unstable" . Not as informative as Fedora. I just thought that more info could be found.
Oh well, just being curious...