Re: An old box running Debian 8
On Wed 18 Nov 2020 at 13:03:13 (-0500), Michael Stone wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 12:18:33PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> > David Wright composed on 2020-11-18 09:46 (UTC-0600):
> >
> > > IIRC the Release Notes usually
> > > recommend upgrading the kernel (its minor version upgrade) early
> > > in the distribution upgrade process.
> > I don't recall ever seeing that. Curious.
> >
> > Even though all my own installations are in multiboot, for Fedora, Mageia and
> > openSUSE, I prevent all automatic kernel upgrades, regardless whether major or
> > minor, dist-upgrade or otherwise. I can't recall any instance of a dist-upgrade
> > failing in any fashion because a newer kernel hadn't been installed.
>
> There are definitely cases which will fail, but it's been a long time
> since that happened in debian--at least if you follow the guideline to
> never skip releases when upgrading.
A case in point was lenny → squeeze: squeeze's udev was incompatible
with lenny's kernel (§4.4.5 squeeze's Release Notes).
More generally, the end of §4.6.1 in several generations of
Release Notes, it appears.
Cheers,
David.
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