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Re: configure sources.list



Thanks for the quick response.  Now I know how my day is going to go.  I
think I have another functioning machine which I will put a fresh
install on and investigate packages and migrate from old to new.

I now the information on how to do this is within the list so I'll dig
around and see if I can consolidate it into one document. (Wish me luck!)

Rod

On 11/14/2016 9:29 AM, James Clarke wrote:
> 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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