Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 14:21:19 -0400
From: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
To: Don Montgomery <donm@methodbydesign.com>
Cc: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: upgrade-dist to lenny vs. reinstall
Resent-Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 18:21:15 +0000 (UTC)
Resent-From: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
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