Re: Fwd: Notice: A version of Debian GNU/Linux is nearing the end of its support life cycle

[James Bromberger <james@rcpt.to>]

I've generally taken most times I've spun up a 6.0.6 and the first thing *I* do is:

apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade -y

This ensures I've pulled in all current security updates; that's the only difference between 6.0.6 and 6.0.7; indeed, upgrade and dist-upgrade should work the same between security roll-ups; ther shouldn't be any packages that require the installation of packages that would otherwise conflict - which may be the case between major releases (eg, removing previously "cricital" marked packages when a new major version of something no longer requires it).

But then I recommend you test everything yourself; if you have a 5.x release and are going to 6.y, then make an AMI (temporarily) of your current instance, spin it up in a new and separate environment, and test the dist-upgrade on this test host. Then update your real instance, keeping the (temporary) AMI until you're happy the upgrade was successful. Always have a tested plan, and a good roll-back. ;)

  James


On 29/03/2013 5:08 PM, Anders Ingemann wrote:

> If you are currently using 6.0.6 and wish to upgrade to a version that will continue to be supported by Debian, please follow these upgrade instructions.

Have we actually ever tested this? There *shouldn't* be any problems but I honestly haven't ever tried dist-upgrading my AMIs.

Anders

On 29 March 2013 08:32, James Bromberger <james@rcpt.to> wrote:

On 29/03/2013 2:33 PM, Brian Gupta wrote:

Hey James, just wanted to confirm that the plan isn't to actively
retire the AMIs as we ship new ones? It's probably not a huge deal
yet, as I don't know how many folks are using these in production yet,
but many folks bake AMIs into service orchestration and automation
frameworks, and even stuff like autoscaling groups. Having the AMIs go
away isn't great. Having them stop being featured for new users
looking for Debian is fine and preferred.

My request was for them to discontinue advertising 6.0.6 AMIs, but that they may stay available for anyone who has them in ASG and CloudFormation, etc. So I'm interested to see if the old AMIs are still accessible after the 29th June.  We shall see... and adjust accordingly.

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