Re: upgrade-dist to lenny vs. reinstall
OK, thanks to all who replied! Don On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Lennart Sorensen wrote: Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 14:21:19 -0400 From: Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Don Montgomery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: upgrade-dist to lenny vs. reinstall Resent-Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 18:21:15 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 01:40:46PM -0500, Don Montgomery wrote: apt-get upgrade-dist has always been deprecated for amd64, due (at least indirectly) to the fact that amd64 was not a mainstream arch prior to etch. Now that etch is mainstream, is upgrade-dist from etch to lenny asking for trouble, or is it still best to do a fresh install? If it is OK, are there any particular gotchas to watch out for? Since for the most part the unofficial sarge was built from the same sources as official sarge, I believe almost all cases could upgrade with a simple apt-get dist-upgrade (is there an upgrade-dist option?). Certainly from etch to lenny amd64 is no different than any other debian architecture and of course a dist-upgrade should work. -- Len Sorensen -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: upgrade-dist to lenny vs. reinstall
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 01:40:46PM -0500, Don Montgomery wrote: > Now that etch is mainstream, is upgrade-dist from etch to lenny asking for > trouble, or is it still best to do a fresh install? If it is OK, are there > any particular gotchas to watch out for? Nothing other than the usual concerns about testing: some packages may be broken or missing, security updates may be delayed for a long time etc. Gabor -- - MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute Hungarian Academy of Sciences - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: upgrade-dist to lenny vs. reinstall
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 01:40:46PM -0500, Don Montgomery wrote: > Now that etch is mainstream, is upgrade-dist from etch to > lenny asking for trouble, or is it still best to do a > fresh install? If it is OK, are there any particular > gotchas to watch out for? Reinstall of Debian is never required and rarely useful. The only exception being changes to storage layout which can be difficult to enact later eg root on RAID and/or LVM, which the installer can configure for you nowadays. Or filesystem attributes which can't be added to existing volumes. I used to have machines that had been upgraded from buzz (1.1) all the way to at least woody (3.0). Although they could still be upgraded they're in landfill now. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: upgrade-dist to lenny vs. reinstall
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 01:40:46PM -0500, Don Montgomery wrote: > apt-get upgrade-dist has always been deprecated for amd64, > due (at least indirectly) to the fact that amd64 was not a > mainstream arch prior to etch. > > Now that etch is mainstream, is upgrade-dist from etch to > lenny asking for trouble, or is it still best to do a > fresh install? If it is OK, are there any particular > gotchas to watch out for? Since for the most part the unofficial sarge was built from the same sources as official sarge, I believe almost all cases could upgrade with a simple apt-get dist-upgrade (is there an upgrade-dist option?). Certainly from etch to lenny amd64 is no different than any other debian architecture and of course a dist-upgrade should work. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: upgrade-dist to lenny vs. reinstall
well, thanks for that ;-) On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Kenward Vaughan wrote: On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 13:40 -0500, Don Montgomery wrote: Hello, apt-get upgrade-dist has always been deprecated for amd64, due (at least indirectly) to the fact that amd64 was not a mainstream arch prior to etch. Now that etch is mainstream, is upgrade-dist from etch to lenny asking for trouble, or is it still best to do a fresh install? If it is OK, are there any particular gotchas to watch out for? Thanks, Don Biggest one I know is making sure you use "dist-upgrade" rather than "upgrade-dist" ... ;-) Kenward -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: upgrade-dist to lenny vs. reinstall
On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 13:40 -0500, Don Montgomery wrote: > Hello, > > apt-get upgrade-dist has always been deprecated for amd64, > due (at least indirectly) to the fact that amd64 was not a > mainstream arch prior to etch. > > Now that etch is mainstream, is upgrade-dist from etch to > lenny asking for trouble, or is it still best to do a > fresh install? If it is OK, are there any particular > gotchas to watch out for? > > Thanks, Don Biggest one I know is making sure you use "dist-upgrade" rather than "upgrade-dist" ... ;-) Kenward -- The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.--Ferdinand Magellan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
upgrade-dist to lenny vs. reinstall
Hello, apt-get upgrade-dist has always been deprecated for amd64, due (at least indirectly) to the fact that amd64 was not a mainstream arch prior to etch. Now that etch is mainstream, is upgrade-dist from etch to lenny asking for trouble, or is it still best to do a fresh install? If it is OK, are there any particular gotchas to watch out for? Thanks, Don -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
