On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 6:59 AM, Andrew Latham <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Thanks Dave. Sounds like a man who's not had his hand soaking in ivory > > liquid and been through the toils and tortures of various upgrades over > the > > years. Very insightful though. Goof thing this discussion ensued as I am > > learning a lot about what to be wary of not least of all, the truth about > > "testing", RC and stable distribution. Which is why, despite eating > humble > > pie re: the RC vs Stable discussion, I was going to wait till the status > on > > RC changes to "stable" and maybe even help out a bit in the upgrade path > > testing. Good thing is that I don't necessarily need to muck around with > the > > Production machines at the moment as all development is being done in the > > Lab, and some of that is in VMs, so I have the power of snapshots with me > > along with physical access to machines should anything break badly. The > > production machines are sitting 10,000 miles away so the best I have is > > console access to them. > > > > Speaking of in-place upgrades, does adding the Squeeze repo. in the > > sources.lst conf and running 'aptitude safe-upgrade/full-upgrade' > > automaticaly begins the upgrade or is there more to it? You mentioned > about > > backing up configs and data etc so it doesn't sound like it's that simple > > eh? > > -- > > pretty easy... Lenny to Squeeze (5.0 to 6.0 for the mortals out there..) > > 1. aptitude update > 2. aptitude upgrade > 3. aptitude clean > 4. sed -i 's/lenny/squeez/g' /etc/apt/sources.list > 5. aptitude update > 6. aptitude install apt dpkg aptitude > 7. aptitude full-upgrade > 8. aptitude clean > 9. init 6 > 10. have a lovely beverage and relax... :) > 1. A cold-stone creamery hot chocolate satchet (70 cal) 2. 2 tbps of fat free half-and half 3. 1 tbsp of instant coffee 4. 1.5 packet of splenda 5. Hot water makes an amazingly cozy low-cal beverage esp. when it's snowing outside like it is in NYC right now :) Thanks for that How-To Andrew. Appreciate it. Will have this going on, on one of the VMs with Lenny and keep up with both side by side to see if both are equally stable before I put one of them in production. Cheers, \R
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