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
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