Re: upgrading strategy
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 12:14:34PM +0200, Danie Roux wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 10:11:02AM +0000, Aurelio Turco wrote:
> > 5: Install again from scratch, to upgrade to a new release.
> > Do this only if your installed release is too far behind the
> > release you wish to upgrade to.
>
> This should not be necessary, because of Debian's great dependencies
> system.
You should never have to install from scratch, certainly, but upgrading
directly from, say, 2.0 to 2.2 isn't necessarily guaranteed to be a
one-step operation. There are sometimes brief instructions in the
release notes about this sort of thing if anybody found time to work
them out.
If all else fails, old releases are archived on archive.debian.org and
its mirrors, so if you find yourself with a buzz (1.1) machine that you
need to upgrade you can always pull each release in turn from there. It
might take a reboot or two as you work through compatible kernels.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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