Can not upgrade from Etch to Lenny ?

ashikaumanga · 01-27-2009, 11:33 PM

Greetings all,

I wanted to upgrade my Etch box into Lenny , I modified my sources.list as follows:

Quote:

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free

then when I execute "apt-get update" output is as follows:

Quote:

umanga:/etc/apt# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org lenny Release.gpg [189B]
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org lenny Release
Get:2 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates Release.gpg [189B]
Get:3 http://ftp.us.debian.org lenny/main Packages/DiffIndex [926B]
Get:4 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates Release [40.8kB]
Get:5 http://ftp.us.debian.org lenny/contrib Packages/DiffIndex [367B]
Get:6 http://ftp.us.debian.org lenny/non-free Packages/DiffIndex [229B]
Get:7 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Packages [20.2kB]
Get:8 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib Packages [14B]
Get:9 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/non-free Packages [14B]
Fetched 62.8kB in 2s (23.1kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done

Then I execute "apt-get dist-upgrade" and it wont do any upgrading?? Output is as

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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

What could be the problem ?

AlucardZero · 01-28-2009, 07:45 AM

Post the entire contents of /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/preferences and /etc/debian_release

ashikaumanga · 01-28-2009, 11:09 PM

sources.list

Quote:

#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r4a _Etch_ - Official i386 CD Binary-1 20080803-21:07]/ etch contrib main

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r4a _Etch_ - Official i386 CD Binary-1 20080803-21:07]/ etch contrib main

deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free
# deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
# deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian lenny non-free main contrib
# deb http://sinhala.sourceforge.net/debian/i386/lenny/ ./
# deb http://www.openprinting.org/download...driver/debian/ lsb3.2 main
# deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib

preferences

Quote:

Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=stable
Pin-Priority: 500

Package: flashplugin-nonfree
Pin: release o=Debian,a=stable
Pin-Priority: -1

Package: flashplugin-nonfree
Pin: release o=Backports.org archive,a=etch-backports
Pin-Priority: 500

Package: *
Pin: release a=now
Pin-Priority: 100

Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian
Pin-Priority: -1

Package: *
Pin: release *
Pin-Priority: -1

no file named 'debian_release' but has one camed 'debian_version'

Quote:

4.0

AlucardZero · 01-29-2009, 11:47 AM

Your problem is that you didn't uncomment the lenny lines and you left the etch lines uncommented. You are also Pinning stable in your preferences file; I would have to look up what 500 means but you may want to change that.

farslayer · 01-29-2009, 01:21 PM

http://wiki.debian.org/AptPinning

http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html

ashikaumanga · 02-02-2009, 12:59 AM

Sorry my sources.list is as follows

Quote:

#deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian lenny non-free main contrib
# deb http://sinhala.sourceforge.net/debian/i386/lenny/ ./
# deb http://www.openprinting.org/download...driver/debian/ lsb3.2 main
# deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main

What should I changed in preferences file ?

Thanks in advance

farslayer · 02-02-2009, 08:14 PM

Looking at the latest sources.list you posted, I don't believe you even need the preferences file if everything is pointed at lenny. I would just rename preferences to preference.old update and try again.