Performing dist-upgrade on powerpc and ppc64
Hi,
for anyone wondering whether it would be safe now to dist-upgrade your Debian
machines running the powerpc or ppc64 ports, here's a quick update on the current
status.
Performing a full two-staged dist-upgrade on ppc64 should be safe while an upgrade
on powerpc is currently safe. If you're running powerpc on a desktop and use lightdm
as the display manager, you should wait for #1067561 [1] to be fixed unless you are
using gdm3 or sddm.
Either way, upgrade should be performed from a virtual console outside X11 or Wayland.
First run "apt update", then "apt upgrade" and make sure every package is updated without
issues. Once that has passed, you may try to run "apt dist-upgrade" but before you confirm
the dist-upgrade, make sure that nothing is purged you still need.
In case of unexpected breakage, please report it to the debian-powerpc mailing list.
Adrian
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1067561
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