On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 09:08:43AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > 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/
Whoops. Google gave me the wrong link. https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/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. > --
