Upgrading to stretch (jessie-backports question)

2017-12-07 Thread John Naggets
Hi, I am currently using Debian 8 and have enabled the jessie-backports repository with the following line in /etc/apt/sources.d/backports.list: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main contrib The only reason for this is that I am using ZFS on jessie for some data disks/partitions

Re: Upgrading to stretch (jessie-backports question)

2017-12-07 Thread Tom Furie
On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 06:02:04PM +0100, John Naggets wrote: > Should I for example before doing the dist-upgrade to stretch delete > the APT jessie-backports source? or should I simply leave it and do a > dist-upgrade as usual? Is there a reason not to switch to your backports source to stretch

Re: Upgrading to stretch (jessie-backports question)

2017-12-07 Thread John Naggets
On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 6:11 PM, Tom Furie wrote: > Is there a reason not to switch to your backports source to stretch at > the same time as the others? If I understand correctly doing that I will end up with the ZFS packages for unstable (Debian 10) after running a dist-upgrade? Is my understan

Re: Upgrading to stretch (jessie-backports question)

2017-12-07 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 06:37:27PM +0100, John Naggets wrote: > On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 6:11 PM, Tom Furie wrote: > > > Is there a reason not to switch to your backports source to stretch at > > the same time as the others? > > If I understand correctly doing that I will end up with the ZFS > pac

Re: Upgrading to stretch (jessie-backports question)

2017-12-07 Thread John Naggets
On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 6:39 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > No. Backports have to be specifically requested. Aha I get it. So by changing my APT sources.list for backports from jessie-backports to stretch-backports all my ZFS packages will simply get upgraded to the official/main Debian (non backpor

Re: Upgrading to stretch (jessie-backports question)

2017-12-07 Thread Brian
On Thu 07 Dec 2017 at 20:17:58 +0100, John Naggets wrote: > On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 6:39 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > No. Backports have to be specifically requested. > > Aha I get it. So by changing my APT sources.list for backports from > jessie-backports to stretch-backports all my ZFS pac

Re: Upgrading to stretch (jessie-backports question)

2017-12-07 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 08:17:58PM +0100, John Naggets wrote: > On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 6:39 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > No. Backports have to be specifically requested. > > Aha I get it. So by changing my APT sources.list for backports from > jessie-backports to stretch-backports all my ZFS

Re: Upgrading to stretch (jessie-backports question)

2017-12-07 Thread John Naggets
On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 8:29 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> Actually moving on the Debian stretch I would not need anymore the >> backports because the ZFS packages are included in stretch. So could I >> just get rid of my backports APT source by deleting my list file >> beforehand and then simply do

Re: Upgrading to stretch (jessie-backports question)

2017-12-07 Thread Brian
On Thu 07 Dec 2017 at 21:02:38 +0100, John Naggets wrote: > On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 8:29 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > >> Actually moving on the Debian stretch I would not need anymore the > >> backports because the ZFS packages are included in stretch. So could I > >> just get rid of my backports