On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 11:36:01AM +0200, Giorgio Pioda wrote: > On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 11:27:41AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Giorgio Pioda] > > > Hi, > > > > > > are there some caveats running apt-get dist-upgrade > > > on jessie/tjener after the release? > > > > Running 'apt-get dist-upgrade' will not move from Wheezy to Jessie, if > > that is what you worry about. For that you will need to edit > > /etc/apt/sources.list* first. > > > > There are problems associated with using APT to upgrade from Wheezy to > > Jessie, mostly associated the fact that any problem will leave you with > > a broken server (ie burning the bridge as you move over it). For that > > reason alone I would recommend installing a replacement server and test > > it before dropping the old server. > > > > There is also the issue with configuration files (and conffiles) > > changing format and fields. One need to be careful with those when > > upgrading using apt. > > > > Luckily all of /etc/ is kept in git using etckeeper, so it is possible > > to figure out exactly what was changed during upgrades. > > > Sorry, I didn't explain it correctly. > > I'm already running Jessie/Skole (since July 2015). > > I just fear that some single packages may give problems. > > IIRC I had the same two years ago as wheezy became stable; > I had to fix a couple of things in Gosa and in the > lsb-release file. Just keep gosa.conf if prompted. IIRC there's been a new gosa version shipped with stock Debian 8.5 on June 4th. If you've updated regurarly the gosa update has already happened. Wolfgang
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