On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 11:27:41AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > 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. I'm aware that the original question was about upgrading from wheezy to jessie, still I want to point out that what Pere described here a bit vaguely, has been nicely and verbosely been documented in the manual: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Jessie/Upgrades (translations exist) > Luckily all of /etc/ is kept in git using etckeeper, so it is possible > to figure out exactly what was changed during upgrades. indeed. -- cheers, Holger
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