On Wed 14 Mar 2018 at 16:19:23 +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 02:58:45PM +0000, Brian wrote: > > On Wed 14 Mar 2018 at 13:03:14 +0000, Joe wrote: > > > Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote: > > > > That's a wee bit overly optimistic. In practice, you will find it > > > > rather challenging to upgrade from a version of Debian that has been > > > > archived (no longer on the regular mirrors, no longer receiving Long > > > > Term Support). Right now, the oldest release of Debian that is still > > > > receiving LTS is wheezy (7.x). > > > > > > I was certainly not suggesting that anyone try it, just that it is > > > possible, therefore upgrading between any minor versions of a major > > > version is trivial. > > > > No harm in trying and it's not all that hard to use snapshot.debian.org > > as an archive to upgtade from squeeze to wheezy. > > Indeed; since snapshot.debian.org goes all the way back to woody in > 2005, I don't see why it wouldn't be possible to put that in your > /etc/apt/sources.list and take a potato system up through woody, > sarge, etch, lenny, squeeze, to wheezy then switch to the normal > mirrors to go to jessie and beyond. Although it'd probably take a > lot longer than just reinstalling. :)
Technically possible though and, projecting into the future when jessie et al are archived, for ever and ever. :) -- Brian.
