Re: upgrade to bookworm causes breakage

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

David Christensen wrote:
...
> I understand that in-place upgrading a FOSS computer over many years is 
> a source of pride for many people.  I tried that, and it did not work 
> out for me.  Since then, I have invested myself in fresh installs, 
> minimal sysadmin changes, thorough documentation, scripting, version 
> control, backup, restore, and multiple layers of redundancy.  The 
> efforts are far more predictable and the results are far more reliable.
>
>
> So, I suggest that you put a secure erased SSD into another computer 
> with no drives other than optical, do a fresh install of Bookworm, add 
> software/ configure as desired, add disks, and migrate your data.

  this varies so much depending upon how many legacy systems
you have in place that will need to be verified - but otherwise
i completely agree.

  the amount of changes that i can apply through the years that
i may not document anyplace can become a problem for others
later so to me doing a completely fresh install is worth the
reminder that i'm doing something wrong and that they should
all be either removed or documented properly.

  doing a fresh install gets rid of a lot of packages i may
no longer be using and their configuration files that could
also be hanging around.  i try to review my package list once
in awhile and remove those i don't need.

  another thing that is useful to review from time to time is
my scripting include files so that i don't have aliases or
other things in there i'm not using any longer.


  songbird