On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 11:27:41AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Giorgio Pioda] > > Hi, > > > > are there some caveats running apt-get dist-upgrade > > on jessie/tjener after the release? > > Running 'apt-get dist-upgrade' will not move from Wheezy to Jessie, if > that is what you worry about. For that you will need to edit > /etc/apt/sources.list* first. > > There are problems associated with using APT to upgrade from Wheezy to > Jessie, mostly associated the fact that any problem will leave you with > a broken server (ie burning the bridge as you move over it). For that > reason alone I would recommend installing a replacement server and test > it before dropping the old server. > > There is also the issue with configuration files (and conffiles) > changing format and fields. One need to be careful with those when > upgrading using apt. > > Luckily all of /etc/ is kept in git using etckeeper, so it is possible > to figure out exactly what was changed during upgrades.
Sorry, I didn't explain it correctly. I'm already running Jessie/Skole (since July 2015). I just fear that some single packages may give problems. IIRC I had the same two years ago as wheezy became stable; I had to fix a couple of things in Gosa and in the lsb-release file. Regards Giorgio -- Giorgio Pioda - Sysadmin SPSE-Tenero Cell +41 79 629 20 63 Tel +41 58 468 62 48
