RE: (dist)-upgrades

Hi all,

I believe our Squeeze amd64 AMIs didn’t include linux-image-amd64, and so this doesn’t pull in a newer kernel when upgrading to Wheezy. I suggest: apt-get update && apt-get install –y linux-image-amd64 for AMD64 (and linux-image-486 for i386) before doing a change to Wheezy to pull in the latest kernel; I think for the next Wheezy release we should ensure we include these meta-packages for the respective architectures.

James

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From: Andrew Stone [mailto:andrew@drivenlogic.com.au]
Sent: Wednesday, 29 May 2013 5:06 PM
To: Anders Ingemann
Cc: Wim Bertels; debian-cloud
Subject: Re: (dist)-upgrades

Tell me about it! :)

On 29 May 2013 19:02, Anders Ingemann <anders@ingemann.de> wrote:

Yep, I agree. My major issue right now is finding the time to do all this :-)

My workload during the day is quite high right now, so when I get home it's kind of a challenge to find the energy to continue coding...

Anders

On 29 May 2013 09:40, Andrew Stone <andrew@drivenlogic.com.au> wrote:

update-grub script failed and the reboot simply booted into the old kernel.

Quite possible... I didn't go over the logs too closely, the dist-upgrade did succeed without error?

Either way the stuff out of git is working great, would be nice to support Jessie OOTB as per https://github.com/andsens/build-debian-cloud/issues/70

Regards,

Stonie.

On 29 May 2013 17:34, Anders Ingemann <anders@ingemann.de> wrote:

Hmm, alright. I think a more probable reason you remained on 2.6 is
that the update-grub script failed and the reboot simply booted into
the old kernel. I'll certainly check it out.

Anders

On 29 May 2013 09:24, Andrew Stone <andrew@drivenlogic.com.au> wrote:
> This is what I did:
>
> I span up the official 64bit Squeeze AMI as detailed her:
> https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/seller-profile/ref=srh_res_product_vendor?ie=UTF8&id=890be55d-32d8-4bc8-9042-2b4fd83064d5
>
> updated my apt sources and performed a full update, an noticed the kernel
> remained on 2.6.
> I figured it must be by design and moved on...
>
> So instead:
>
> git clone https://github.com/andsens/build-debian-cloud.git
>
> [change into dir]
>
> export EC2_ACCESS_KEY='XXX';
> export EC2_SECRET_KEY='XXX';
> ./build-debian-cloud ec2 --volume-size 20 --filesystem ext4 --plugin
> plugins/admin-user --description 'Debian 7 (Wheezy)' --plugin
> plugins/publish-ami --plugin plugins/publish-snapshot --codename wheezy;
>
>
> Then updated my apt sources to Jessie... and updated --> dist-upgrade. No
> problems. :)
>
> Running like a charm! thanks for all the hard work. :)
>
> Cheers,
> Stonie
>
> On 29 May 2013 17:03, Anders Ingemann <anders@ingemann.de> wrote:
>>
>> On 29 May 2013 08:54, Andrew Stone <andrew@drivenlogic.com.au> wrote:
>> >
>> > The latest version on github updates from wheezy to Jessie without
>> > issue.
>> >
>> > I found that for some reason the Squeeze AMIs on amazon would not update
>> > the kernel on a dist-upgrade. (does someone know why?)
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Andrew Stone.
>> >
>> > Andrew Stone
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>> > andrew.stone@drivenlogic.com.au
>> > http://drivenlogic.com.au
>> >
>> > Creating Sydney's best enterprise software
>> > DrivenLogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 2746, Sydney, NSW, 2001, Australia.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On 29 May 2013 16:41, Wim Bertels <wim.bertels@khleuven.be> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hallo,
>> >>
>> >> as i read on
>> >> http://wiki.debian.org/Cloud
>> >>
>> >> there 3 main cloud products in the repository,
>> >> does this mean all three will have a (painless:) (dist-)upgrade
>> >> lifecycle (towards future releases of debian)?
>> >>
>> >> mvg,
>> >> Wim
>> >>
>> >>
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>> >
>> > I found that for some reason the Squeeze AMIs on amazon would not update
>> > the kernel on a dist-upgrade.
>> Wait what? The official debian squeeze AMIs? Are you certain? This may
>> be a bug, upgrading from squeeze to wheezy should be possible.
>>
>>
>> Anders
>
>