On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 13:04:16 +0000, Riku Voipio <riku.voi...@iki.fi> wrote: >On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 09:50:56AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> The loss of keyscript just broke my clients. I am really afraid of the >> first system update breaking my _servers_, causing a resinstall to be >> necessary. I know of one customer who already said that if a reinstall >> will become necessary, the reinstalled distribution will be called Red >> Hat Enterprise Linux. I'd like to postpone this as long as possible. > >If bug-free upgrades are valueble for you and your clients, it doesn't >seem wise to bet on luck that nothing will break. Debian has had >quite good record on successful in-place upgrades, but it mostly depends >on volunteers doing manual dist-upgrade tests during freeze. Which is often >too late and too little.
All _my_ clients run unstable anyway, and it only really broke the test system. It just ate a few days of tinkering at an inconvenient time to get the test system to boot again and to upgrade the other machines in the process. >Settings up automated upgrade tests at jenkins.debian.net for both generic >installs and installs similar your setup would let you identify and fix >issues before they become problems in your production. I am doing this. I still hate the idea that my test systems break as this means work and danger in production. Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834