Hi list, I was reading through http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html and thought that many of the checks could be done with a shell script. The information is all there on the page, but it requires the reader to parse rather a lot of text and check a lot of things. I've hacked out something (attached) that attempts to do the basics and collate information that might be useful in a later upgrade report. I hope this will give people a bit more confidence they are ready to upgrade. It appears to work on my woody+backports.org system. I'm aware some people would be unhappy letting such script loose on unsuspecting users, but note that it does not attempt to do the upgrade step for them. I think it will be a net gain, esp. if it captures information about their system in a parseable way. OTOH I'm sure it has unforseen problems, please hack on it. Cheers Vince
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upgrade-prep.sh
Description: Bourne shell script