On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 09:01:32AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Tell me where to read about an insitu upgrade from stretch to buster,
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ > root@coyote:~$ apt update > Hit:1 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates InRelease > Hit:2 http://linuxcnc.org stretch InRelease > Hit:3 https://deb.debian.org/debian oldstable InRelease > Hit:4 > http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity-builddeps-r14.0.0/debian > stretch InRelease > Hit:5 http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity-r14.0.0/debian > stretch InRelease > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > 2588 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them. > > 2 hours later it still wants to do that. That is enough to put me on > buster. IF it works. You literally have the word "oldstable" in your sources.list for your main Debian repository? That's a really unsound practice. It will lead to unexpected release upgrades (or worse, unexpected *failed* release upgrades). You also have multiple third-party repositories in your sources.list. It's strongly recommended that you remove those during the release upgrade. You may or may not also have to remove the *packages* that came from them. It'll be on an "at your own risk" basis if you don't.
