Re: sareg to etch question

[John Graves <jhgraves@gis.net>]

Kevin Mark wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 02:16:28PM -0400, John Graves wrote:
>   
> > With the impending move of etch to stable, I have a question on how to 
> > do the upgrade.   I am running sarge with the 2.4.25-1-386 kernel.  I 
> > understand that etch requires the 2.6.x kernel.  This would imply that I 
> > have a kernel upgrade in my future.  Do I want to do that upgrade on 
> > sarge? 
> >     
>
> To upgrade from sarge to current testing? I'd do it if its not a
> production system and you can handle any possible breakage.
>
>   
The server is running Samba and is primarily used as a file and DHCP 
server for the network.  It is a production system.

> > Will that allow me use my package manager to do the etch upgrade 
> > by setting my source list to stable rather than sarge?
> >     
My source list is currently set to sarge  Before sarge went stable I had 
set it to stable and the upgrade went well.  Now I am only seeing 
security updates.  Is it true that etch will require the 2.6.x kernel?  
If so, it does sound as though I want to do that and leave my sources 
list set to sarge until I am sure that the server is stable, and change 
my sources to stable and let what happens happen.

John
> If your sources.list is set to sarge, then when etch is released,
> nothing will be upgrade to etch.
> If your sources.list is set to stable, then when etch is released,
> you will upgrade to the current stable -- etch. But wiil upgrde again
> when the next stable is relased.
> If your sources.list is set to etch, then when etch is released,
> you will upgrade to etch and stay with etch.
>
> If you wait for etch to be relaesed, there will be an 'sarge to etch'
> upgrade guide (release notes) that will help you address what every
> issue have been found.
> cheers,
> Kev
>