Re: Crossgrading Wheezy from 32bit to 64bit: Solving package dependency problems after kernel change.

[Pieter Van Isacker <pieter.vanisacker@lightspeedhq.com>]

Hi Sven,

Thanks for that suggestion.
I've quickly tried this on a test VM and indeed crossgrading seems to work much better in debian 9 compared to debian 7.

Thanks,
Pieter

> On 16 Jan 2018, at 16:03, Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> wrote:
> 
> Pieter Van Isacker <pieter.vanisacker@lightspeedhq.com> wrote:
> 
>> While testing change a Debian Wheezy from 32bit to 64bit I ran into an
>> issue. Following the guide on https://wiki.debian.org/CrossGrading
>> <https://wiki.debian.org/CrossGrading> Once we've change to 64bit we
>> plan to update to Debian 8 and then possibly to Debian 9
> 
> You are better off first upgrading to Debian 9 and *then* trying to
> crossgrade. The packages in Debian 9 are more prepared for multi-arch
> than the one in Debian 7.
> 
> Still, there is no guarantee it will work and for production systems I
> strongly advise you to just backup the data and reinstall from scratch
> as 64bit system.
> 
> Grüße,
> Sven.
> 
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