Ira Abramov wrote: > A Debian guy once told me that testing Debian "testing" is fun and > fruitful. you have nothing to lose (except your data). > > Jokes aside, I've been using Etch on a production server for a while, > and I fealt it has matured enough to upgrade my own server from Sarge. > > the apt-get dist-upgrade was a breeze, most of the packages upgraded > amoothly, a mere 5 complained at the very end and I thought "oh well, no > biggy. I like things to be smooth, but it's OK to have 3-5 tiny > glitches... > > Let's see... the old kernel won't stick around because it's incompatible > with the new HAL... oh well, I'll have a new kernel installed soon > enough, what else? umm, openssh-client cross-owns the same files as > "ssh" so it won't install and neither will openssh-server. damn, someone > must have forgotten to set the "replaces" section, oh well, it'll be > tricky but doable. > > Oh, the new kernel won't install smoothly? bugger... I'll just upgrade > the SSHD and have a look. run aptitude, prepare a transaction to remove > ssh and install openssh-server and openssh-client. hit go..." > > **** BOOM. Power failure. ***** > > Umm, crap... lucky I ran aptitude in "screen", so the upgrade will > finish. let's ssh... umm. > > try again.... > > crap. > > CRAP > > CRAAAAAAP!!!!!! > > need to go to bezeqint. by taxi. during Sunday's rush hour. I can't ask > them to reboot and pray, because there's no kernel installed on the > godam machine :-& > > bleh. > > Don't forget to open critical bugs on this. Both the ssh upgrade and the kernel upgrade must run smoothly.
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