BLAGHEAD

shawoho · Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 2:00 am Post subject:

For all that people trying to run blaghead... it is important to know, that it might be resulting in a non graphical or a bit unstable system... but just be brave and go for it..... blaghead experiences are needed...

the necessary repos were published by jebba before, I see many people has gotten unbootable systems after the upgrade... IMPORTANT to install these packages first (upstart and util-linux-ng), this way we can get a bootable system.

Warning: You'll find packages conflicts, reporting them here or at blag-devel mailing list is necessary...
In order to resolve conflicts, remove the package which is installed and is preventing the new package installation.. for instance PIL and python-imaging , removing python-imaging will let PIL get installed, but it will remove some dependencies like scribus.. this is just an example...
if the package you are going to remove will get rid of some important pakcages, STOP there, and post your problem.. otherwise you might get a broken system...
Jebba also removes conflicts from repos, so that's why you should report them...

Always keep in touch...

shawoho · Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 2:10 am Post subject:

people... if you get to upgrade to blaghead despite conflicts or such.... a new apt's blag.list will be automatically generated...

important to disable these new lines, which uses 80000 blag repos......

keep using blaghead repos...

remember the apt's blag.list will be regenerated with 80000 blag repos, and a /etc/apt/sources.list will be created will the currently in use blaghead repos... only these last ones....
doesn't matter whether in apt's blag.list file or in sources.list...
I only use blag.list file, so sources.list is empty for me ;)

Keep in touch when using blaghead.... :)

shawoho · Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 2:22 am Post subject:

By the way...

jebba:

conflicts from install rsyslog (rpm -q --> Not Installed) with sysklogd (rpm -q --> Installed)

removing sysklogd, will remove initscripts and rather like 180 packages.... so it is not by that way...

that stops me to get a new dist-upgrade since yesterday....

I alse was talking to weyasey, and told me to install fluxbox... but I already installed it from cd at a fresh install...
startfluxbox gives me a: couldn't connect to Xserver
For a weird reason I still have gnome-* packgaes installed, but gnome-session or X, freezes my system... and gdm just was removed at the last dist-upgrade i guess... rpm -q (Not installed)

extraspecialbitter · Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 2:34 am Post subject:

extraspecialbitter · Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 2:35 am Post subject:

jebba · Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 2:40 am Post subject: Re: "new" sources file

extraspecialbitter · Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 2:50 am Post subject: Re: "new" sources file

extraspecialbitter · Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 2:54 am Post subject:

jebba · Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 2:55 am Post subject:

jebba · Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 2:57 am Post subject:

You want gdm if you want a graphical system. apt-get install it. ;)

If the `apt-get dist-upgrade` or `yum update` tells you it is going to remove a bunch of stuff, don't run it. ;) Try not to lose important packages, in sum, but get the ones updated you need. :)

Have fun,

-Jeff

veganix · Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 10:37 am Post subject:

Thanks for all the tips and help jebba, extraspecialbitter and shawoho!
I messed up everything a second time, but got a nice, bootable system (with gdm) the third time:-) Started with upstart/util-linux-ng, and disabeled the generated blag.list after dist-upgrade. Had to reboot during upgrade, and remove multiple versions of libgnomecups and avahi. I am now almost completely upgraded, except:

jebba · Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 12:24 pm Post subject:

rsyslog replaces sysklog. You may be able to remove *most* (but not all) of `rpm -qa | grep fc7`. You could `yum install rsyslog` too.