Re: Re: upgrade dist from squeeze to wheezy

[Raffaele Morelli <raffaele.morelli@gmail.com>]

2013/12/19 Clive Standbridge <list-user@tgstandbridges.plus.com>

> > we have been on squeeze for a couple of years and run a server using
> > openvz. we also have some backports and some software in /usr/local
> > we
> > compiled (so we could use more updated versions).
> >
> > we want to do a dist upgrade to wheezy.
> >

The more your system settings are customized the more things could run smoothly.

I would not remove packages in /usr/local/  (unless there's a good reason, but ask yourself: is there any?)

Distribution upgrades are supposed to be accomplished using dist-upgrade so I would suggest you to backup /etc/ then run dist-upgrade keeping an eye on config files replacement. 

Apt will ask you for each and every replacement which does involves *.ini or *.conf etc etc, you can view diffs, replace, mantain your version. If you miss something you can rely on your /etc/ backup.

It's not as difficult, it will just take time.

/r