Re: Safest way to upgrade Sid after long interval?
On 14 Jul 2011, Joe wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:51:05 +0200
> "Hans-J. Ullrich" <hans.ullrich@loop.de> wrote:
>
> >
> > > Has anyone any experience of doing something like this? Best way to
> > > go about things?
> > >
> > > Anthony
> >
> > I made best experience with apt-get upgrade, then after it, apt-get
> > dist- upgrade.
> >
> > This worked better than the alternative: aptitude safe-upgrade after
> > it aptitude full-upgrade. However for short or long I suggest to
> > change to aptitude, as the dependencies are better made.
> >
>
> Yes, I'd agree, I recently upgraded a laptop which doesn't normally run
> sid, but I needed it for one particular job. I don't know how long it
> had been left alone, but it might easily have been a year or more.
>
> I normally use aptitude, so I did a safe- then a full-upgrade,
> expecting problems, but there weren't any at either stage. I rebooted
> between, as there would have been a kernel change at the first step.
>
> No special precautions, as it was basically a spare operating system, I
> could reinstall without losing anything. You might want to be a bit
> more careful.
>
> --
> Joe
Thanks to both for replies. I took my courage in both hands and did the
upgrade. Not too many problems. The worst were (1) apt-listbugs not
working caused the upgrade to stop - solved by turning off apt-listbugs
in its config file, and (2) boot hanging for 5 min truing to start klogd
- solved by replacing with rsyslog.
Anthony
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