Re: Wheezy to Stretch
On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 12:40:51PM -0800, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> I know what I'm talking about
Same here.
> and if I can do it anybody can do it,
There is a big difference between *can* and *should*.
> Debian
> has given us all the tools we need to upgrade any stable release to current
> stable release or higher for that matter, thank about it.
>From the release notes [0]:
Direct upgrades from Debian releases older than 8 (jessie) are not
supported. Please follow the instructions in the Release Notes for
Debian 8 to upgrade to 8 first.
> Just start with a
> simple upgrade first before tackling the other things, it's not rocket
> science after all.
>
Correct. It is not rocket science. However, the suggestion you made is
far more likely to encounter problems, perhaps even very difficult to
recover problems, than the supported and *tested* upgrade path. There
are so many packages in Debian that you have no way of being certain
that any given upgrade will work without issues.
I have even done in place 32-bit -> 64-bit migrations. However, I would
not recommend that anyone try that without understanding the potential
risks. Your recommendation had a conspicuous lack of warnings concerning
the potential provblems associated with it.
Regards,
-Roberto
[0]
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#system-status
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Roberto C. Sánchez
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