Quoting Daniel Wittenberg <daniel-wittenberg(a)starken.com>:
I just decided to update my RH 9 laptop to fedora 9.0.93. I've
used
apt-rpm many times, so familiar with that, just never done an apt-get
dist-upgrade before. So I download the Fedora apt RPM, install ok, but
try to apt-get update from any sites, and I get a lot of:
"Failed to fetch ftp://.... Size mismatch" errors
That simply means that either
a) the packages on the repository are corrupt/not yet fully downloaded
b) download went bad (could be a proxy acting up or whatever)
Usually just re-running dist-upgrade will fix the situation (it'll continue the
download where it left off the last time, also in case of partially downloaded
packages)
and of course then trying apt-get dist-upgrade fails miserably. When
doing an apt-get dist-upgrade you put the version you want to upgrade
to, right? (/pub/linux/fedora/fedora redhat/9.0.93/i386 os stable
updates)
That looks ok otherwise.. BUT at this stage you shouldn't bother with 9.0.93
anymore, upgrade to Fedora Core 0.94 which is the second beta where 9.0.93 was
the first. So that'd be "<server+path> redhat/0.94/i386 os stable
updates", for
the sites that have apt-enabled FC 0.94 repositories (well, fedora.us does now)
I know this is probably something stupid...or is it easier to download
the .iso's and do it that way? It seemed from the webpage the "proper"
way to do it was via apt so I thought I'd try.
You *can* do it with apt, yum or up2date but the "official" way is to upgrade
with anaconda.
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- Panu -