Re: How to upgrade 6 - 7
Hello
Im running testing on PowerPC since, I dont know half a year after squeeze
came out... and before that it was the same after lenny and etch. Well I had a
x86 then but the point is that, things can mess up, if you upgrade to testing,
but its pretty unlikely ... but its possible. Wheezy is freezed so no new
versions are running into it, so I think its pretty safe. Though you will get
many packages-updates every other day in testing.
I wouldnt upgrade to unstable (sid) either. Though sometimes in phases where
eg a new kde or packages with many dependencies are merged from unstable to
testing its a good idea to apt-pin unstable, so you can use packages from
unstable, too.
I have not reinstalled on my Powerbook G4, I think since Lenny. So I dist-
upgraded from lenny to squeeze and then to wheezy.
I think you should try to dist-upgrade. Because you have nothing to loose. In
both cases you need to backup all your important data. If the dist-upgrade
works you dont need to reinstall your system.
What you read are mostly people who had problems with dist-upgrade, the many
people who dist-upgraded without problems wont be found on mailing-lists.
Because they didnt have problems. Thats media. There are not many success
stories to be found in them,
If you need a system that is _always_ stable I would stay with stable version.
Because sometimes in early phases of testing (after a new release) many new
packages are merged and you will have to fix some things. Sometimes in
situations you really dont need it, because eg you dont have the time.
But thats immanent with testing. Its not stable. E.g. half a year ago, I had a
problem with akonadi. That led to Kmail not working anymore, so I couldnt use
my email-program. So until I fixed it I had to use the webmailer.
But I think this was my only mojor problem in some years (?!) of testing
wheezy. When was squeeze released then? O my, time flies...
greets
Kai
Am Sonntag 16 September 2012, 01:25:27 schrieb Logan Brown:
> Kristen,
>
> I would never recommend attempting a dist upgrade to unstable. I've
> tried it twice in the past, and both times led to reinstalling the
> from scratch. Dependencies get mixed up, and you're left with a highly
> unstable "bastardized" system.
>
> Regards,
> Logan Brown
>
>
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> On Sep 15, 2012, at 16:55, Kristen R <kristen@atmyhome.org> wrote:
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> > I am thinking of upgrading my PowerPC from Squeeze to testing. I have
> >
> > read some articles I found but have not really found anything up to
> > date. Nearly all of them speak of disaster while others speak of
> > success. I wonder if it is advisable to attempt a distribution upgrade
> > at all? Or should I do a clean install?
> >
> > If you know of any articles I would like to view them first before
> > attempting this upgrade
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Kristen
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