Re: Debian 4.0 Upgrade Path
Dear Eduardo,
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
On Qui, 21 Jan 2010, Thiemo Nagel wrote:
having read your email concerning the termination of etch security
support, I'm looking for an upgrade path for our installation of ~100
machines.
Is it planned to start squeeze security support in time to allow a
direct 4.0 --> 6.0 upgrade?
I doubt so, since squeeze is still a relatively long way from being
released. Certainly not in the next month.
The last time I checked, the freeze was scheduled for March. If I'm not
mistaken, usually security support starts some time before the final
release. So it's a rather narrow gap to be bridged (at least in my
imagination).
And I believe a direct upgrade 4.0 -> 6.0 is not supported by Debian,
major releases cannot be skipped.
I'm not talking of an upgrade in the sense of 'apt-get dist-upgrade',
we'll be doing fresh installations with the new version. However, it
would save both administrators and users a huge amount of work, if we
could deploy squeeze now (one transition) instead of deploying lenny now
and squeeze a year from now (two transitions).
Cheers!
Thiemo
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