On Mon, 12 Jun 2023 08:50:54 -0400 Celejar <cele...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Jun 2023 12:31:31 -0400 > Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote: > > > > > The machine I am typing on has been upgraded from bullseye to > > bookworm. TL;DR: boring, which is good. > > ... > > > I read the release notes. > > > > Changed sources.list entries. > > > > Ran apt update. > > > > I ran apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs before apt full-upgrade. > > Then I rebooted. > > > > Everything's working. In the end, I didn't make any config > > changes (left everything as "keep current config"). > > This is the part that always stresses me out; I often have changes in > the default config files that I don't want to lose, but I'm also > worried about not getting the latest versions of the config files. I > usually try to accept the new files and manually bring in any > important changes I've made to the old ones, but this takes time and > patience to do right, and things can break if not done right :) > > Yes. I run a fairly customised exim4, and during one upgrade, I think either to or from etch, I kept my configuration, and it broke the exim4 installation. Exim4 was unconfigured, so it wouldn't run, but dpkg-reconfigure couldn't work either. Even a purge wouldn't enable reinstallation, and I had to resort to manually deleting files. I've had more and more trouble with each version, so this time I'll be fresh installing. I suppose it's less trouble with a workstation. -- Joe