smxi has been recoded to add a small sidux-> aptosid conversion function, and it also has had some sidux functions removed for the time being until I get around to recoding them, mainly the aptosid mirror switcher.

Once aptosid settles and they have some solid mirrors I'll redo it.

As usual, all you need to do is run smxi, and it will dump all your old sidux repos, and then write a quick temp file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sidux.list
then change an smxi.conf default setting, and after that, it will prompt you to please continue on to the your dist-upgrade, which I guess is supposed to replace all the sidux cr#p with aptosid cr#p.

Again, assuming the directions on aptosid.com are right, this should work without you having to do anything to your system except start smxi then do the dist-upgrade BEFORE you try to install a kernel..

If you find any sidux packages left over after the conversion, tell me the apt package name and I'll add in a sidux stripper function to run post-du.

I am not going to do any fancy stuff for aptosid, I'm sick of those guys, now smxi will be a purely debian script, with some support for derived distros like antix, mepis, linuxmint debian, aptosid, epidemic and so on.

There's going to be some dross left over because sidux was so seeped into smxi that it took a long time to start stripping it out.

One nice plus, now for all users if they are running debian testing/sid, they will get a first run option to add liquorix sources, so if you like liquorix, this will make it a simpler install process.

Already existing smxi users won't see this option, but it's also found in kernel options, advanced options, super advanced options, so you can add it there.

I don't really have any sidux machines to test this one, sorry, so let me know how it works, I don't personally care, but the kernel support is now back, AFTER you run the dist-upgrade, which is supposed to overwrite your sidux.list with aptosid thing, we'll see how that works.

I've also removed the option to install sidux/aptosid packages on smxi startup because I don't want to track their junk anymore, plus anyone who wants aptosid should just install it and leave it at that.

smxi should work fine with it, but you'll no longer get that custom tailored feeling that sidux+smxi had, I've had enough of supporting that stuff at that level, now it will just be standard debian stuff supported.
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All went OK here . . . although mine was a partial conversion. Thanks for your efforts!

drb
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Is there then a simple and problem free method to convert an existing sidux installation into a debian testing/squeeze one?
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hm,
worked for me so far some days ago without real problems.
Problably the new changes weren not in that time.

I however had changed my sources lists before. The only issues I had were some minor glitches within grub2 which I solved manually (srceen resolution etc.)

regards

Reiner
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skay, I'll add a de-sidux-er tool in cleanup at some point.

That's all that's really required, purging all the sidux packages.
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I can confirm that the conversion works.
Thanks again for your hard work.
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The conversion worked faultlessly for me on two machines, including a kernel upgrade to 2.6.35-4.dmz.2-liquorix-686. There was only a temporary glitch when I requested the beta nVidia driver for my nVidia G73 [GeForce 7300 GT] and lost X. The newest -c driver soon fixed that.

Sid/smxi is a great combination for me, although the sidux/whatever live CD is handy and offers a very fast install.

Thanks, HH for the enormous amount of work you've done for us all - and the dramas you've had to suffer along the way.
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thanks paleoflatus
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@h2 - I get the check for conversion to aptosid every time I run smxi - this means I go straight to the d-u and have to upgrade the kernel later. Should there be something to indicate the conversion has already taken place?

drb
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I just found a bug with that, if you have sidux sources but do not have sidux packages, the conversion doesn't happen of course, that's for people who have for example sid + sidux sources for kernels only, or for hot fixes.

I'll have to tweak that a bit, I just discovered the same problem last night too.
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