Re: bookworm upgrade report: boring
On Mon, 12 Jun 2023 08:50:54 -0400
Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Jun 2023 12:31:31 -0400
> Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > The machine I am typing on has been upgraded from bullseye to
> > bookworm. TL;DR: boring, which is good.
>
> ...
>
> > I read the release notes.
> >
> > Changed sources.list entries.
> >
> > Ran apt update.
> >
> > I ran apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs before apt full-upgrade.
> > Then I rebooted.
> >
> > Everything's working. In the end, I didn't make any config
> > changes (left everything as "keep current config").
>
> This is the part that always stresses me out; I often have changes in
> the default config files that I don't want to lose, but I'm also
> worried about not getting the latest versions of the config files. I
> usually try to accept the new files and manually bring in any
> important changes I've made to the old ones, but this takes time and
> patience to do right, and things can break if not done right :)
>
>
Yes. I run a fairly customised exim4, and during one upgrade, I think
either to or from etch, I kept my configuration, and it broke the exim4
installation. Exim4 was unconfigured, so it wouldn't run, but
dpkg-reconfigure couldn't work either. Even a purge wouldn't enable
reinstallation, and I had to resort to manually deleting files.
I've had more and more trouble with each version, so this time I'll be
fresh installing. I suppose it's less trouble with a workstation.
--
Joe
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