Re: configure sources.list
Hi Rod,
> On 14 Nov 2016, at 15:21, rod <r.schnell@mythos.freeddns.org> wrote:
>
> Good morning (CDT),
>
> Q: If I change to sources.list to what's below on a machine running;
>
> rod@cplus:~$ uname -a
> Linux cplus 3.2.0-4-sparc64 #1 Debian 3.2.68-1+deb7u3 sparc64 GNU/Linux
>
> and go through the update process, will it bring the machine to our
> current level;
>
> rod@ravirin~$uname -a
> Linux ravirin 4.9.0-rc2+ #3 SMP Thu Oct 27 01:17:17 BST 2016 sparc64
> GNU/Linux
>
> ?
>
> I would like to update the first machine without having to load it from
> scratch.
This is uncharted waters. You’ll be trying to cross-grade[1] (sparc32 to
sparc64 userland) and skip a release (no jessie as a stepping-stone).
Unfortunately, I really don’t see a way in which this will work without
a world of pain. Even going from i386->amd64 on the same release is not
recommended (though possible). I strongly suggest you reinstall; you can
get a list of the installed packages with `dpkg --get-selections`, but
this will need to be hand-inspected rather than blindly installing
everything there on the new system, since packages will have been renamed,
especially shared libraries.
Regards,
James
[1] https://wiki.debian.org/CrossGrading
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