Re: Comments on upgrade steps from one version of Debian to another
On 8/20/2022 9:48 PM, John Boxall wrote:
I created an upgrade script based on something I found a few years ago
that indicated the steps to follow to upgrade from one version of Debian
to another (e.g. Buster 10 to Bullseye 11). As I am going to need to run
this script at some point (I am still running Buster/10 on my systems),
I thought I'd ask the Debian user brain trust to comment/critique the
scripted steps. So here they are:
############### Start
<snip>
(I don't even have this part started yet....didn't know I needed it the
last time I ran it)
#
The lines for the security mirror has changed on Bullseye.
<snip>
############### End
Thoughts/critique/criticism/flames/etc
The script does not bail out on command failure, you might want to
takecare of that if you automate this process by way of a script.
That is all I can say on the cmds.
If I may, for a fiew servers I would do it manually instead of blindly
using a bunch of commands.
If you need to automate this process, you should familiorize yourself
with something like Ansible or in anycase a more robust solution.
For upgrading Buster to Bullseye, I used:
$ apt-get update
$ apt-get upgrade
$ apt-get full-upgrade
For better or worse, Debian let you upgrade or reinstall from scratch.
--
John Doe
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