Re: dist upgrade, amd64 sarge (unofficial) -> etch

[Matthew Robinson <matt@fone-me.com>]

Justin C wrote:
> I've been using the unofficial back-port of amd64 Sarge (as I guess a
> lot of people here were). This is a production server and work relies on
> it, so I've been a little bit hesitant about upgrading from an
> unsupported version to an official version, just in case.
>
> I've not read much on this list regarding problems with the upgrade so
> am hoping it'll go smoothly.
>
> My old sources.list reads:
>
>    deb http://amd64.debian.net/debian-amd64 stable main
>
> I'm more used to seeing URLs looking like:
>    deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main
>
> This is my first non-x86 platform, I don't know if the URL is different
> because of the different platform or if that was just the source for the
> unofficial back-port, and that apt knows it's platform and therefore it
> doesn't need to be stated in the sources.list.
>
> If someone can clarify my upgrade path here I'd be grateful.
>   
Hi,

We followed the recommended upgrade procedure in the Debian install 
guide, from sarge AMD64 to etch AMD64. Everything worked smoothly. We 
were using the kernel from sarge-backports, however.

Our sources.list:

deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free

Matt