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[OT] breaking stuff during upgrades (was Re: etch backports)



On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, Michael Gilbert wrote:

> Debian has a strong commitment to not breaking stuff during upgrades.

Most of the time.

A Xen VM using pygrub, however, WILL break in various ways
during lenny→squeeze upgrades. First, grub2 is installed,
then menu.lst is no longer generated – and after installing
grub-legacy manually, menu.lst is overwritten, losing local
changes (grub2 makes backups, though). And udev prevents
upgrading before a new kernel was booted. Oh the joy.

Why is there no apt-get install-and-dist-upgrade?

</rant>

That said, we’re working on s/Xen/KVM/.

bye,
//mirabilos
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