Re: wheezy to squeeze
On Thursday 16 July 2015 17:09:45 Martin G. McCormick wrote:
> It is time to finish the upgrade from squeeze to jessie,
> I think. It looks like the squeeze to wheezy upgrade worked but
> I see a problem when trying to upgrade from wheezy to jessie.
>
> Here are the active lines in sources.list: When all
> entries pointed to wheezy, I did the upgrade and nothing showed
> up as being held back so I changed all to jessie and there's a
> problem all right:
>
>
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main
> deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie contrib non-free
>
> I also had the line:
>
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free
>
> but that triggered a warning of duplicate sources so I commented
> it out.
>
> 622 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 551 not upgraded.
> Need to get 222 MB of archives.
> After this operation, 48.4 MB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
>
> Needless to say, I typed n and there's where things stand now.
>
> The number of held-back entries is about the size of the whole
> distribution so something is seriously wrong.
For that particular upgrade you really _do_ need to read the release notes. A
lot had to be changed between Wheezy and Jessie because of the change of
default init system to systemd. Some of us have upgraded very successfully -
but very cautiously. Some of us are waiting for things to settle down a bit.
So you are right to be a little cautious. It is possible to upgrade without
changing to systemd - we are back to the release notes. I think that people
have upgraded very happily to Jessie from Wheezy both with and without
changing to systemd.
I have installed Jessie, but have yet to upgrade to it. Though I shall do so
in the near future.
Lisi
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