Re: Release

[Giorgio Pioda <gfwp@ticino.com>]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 11:54:54AM +0200, Wolfgang Schweer wrote:
> 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

Perhaps somethings about /etc/apt/sources.list

I have some automatically commented lines for skolelinux like
you can see below, that need to be uncommented?

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# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 8.0+edu0~b1 _Jessie_ - Unofficial Multi-architecture amd64/i386 NETINST #1 20150618-18:42]/ jessie contrib main non-free

deb http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib

## Debian Edu jessie repository
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux jessie local
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb-src http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux jessie local

# deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free

# jessie-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
deb http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://http.debian.net/debian jessie main contrib non-free

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Regards

Giorgio


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