I don't use apt-get, I use aptitude for conflict resolution.

Currently I have no obsolete packages and the upgrade went well I think.

--- Eloy

On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 3:16 AM Edward Bartolo <edbarx@???> wrote:

> HI,
>
> An important piece of information is 'how did you install Devuan
> Ceres?'. If you upgraded from one major version to the next, be aware
> certain packages may need to be upgraded before the final
> dist-upgrading. I am using Devuan ASCII which I upgraded from Devuan
> Jessie.
>
> The procedure:
> 1) Changed /etc/apt/sources.list to point to ASCII instead of Jessie
> and run 'apt-get update'.
> 2) Upgraded kernel, dpkg, apt, aptitude with all packages that were
> pulled in the upgrade.
> 3) Rebooted
> 4) Run the final 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. That installed a long list
> of packages.
> 5) Rebooted again to test the newly upgraded system.
>
> Edward
>
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>
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