On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 01:45:42PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 13 Jun, luke wrote:
> >  AFAIK, no Linux distro is considered quite safe to upgrade from one 
> >  release to the next (e.g. from SuSE 9.2 to SuSE 10.0, or FC 4 to FC 5). 
> 
> I turned up this discussion about this very topic:
> 
> http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/14/152237
> 
> in which numerous respondents say that Debian and Gentoo and Mandrake
> (and Arch Linux) can all have the distro itself upgraded.
> 
> So, a question for the Debian, Gentoo etc. users: have any of you have
> had a problem when you tried to get the system to upgrade itself from an
> older release (e.g. Debian 3.0 to 3.1)?  Or does it always work
> perfectly smoothly?

I wouldn't say that it can't fail, but I can't think of too many upgrades of
Debian or Ubuntu boxes where it's completely done itself in, and I've done
some pretty crazy stuff over the years -- custom packages, mixing releases,
that sort of thing.  On the other hand, I have seen some people who've
managed to make a complete dog's breakfast of their systems such that the
system won't upgrade, but I think that's more PEBKAC than PEID.

- Matt
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