@Uwe Did you have the time to run a backup of the home directory? I would proceed and open an infra ticket if we are ready, I just need to know what "all packages we need for Jenkins Slaves" includes, as I am not sure how to look this up to include it in the ticket.
Christos Hi, > I tried the do-release-upgrade on the older 18.04 machine. Unfortunately > it does not work, as there are too many PPA repositories in the config > (nodejs,....) and those lead to package conflicts so do-release-upgrade > bails out. > I could uninstall all those PPAs with "ppa-purge", but I don't know how > to get puppet to reinstallthem after upgrade. > So it looks like we need to do the "rebuild node" with fresh OS provided > by ASF. That's the problem of nailed down instances with horrible puppet > (sorry, but puppet is the worst tool that I try to avoid at all of my > customers, it always causes issues administering machines for Solr > installations!). > I can do the jenkins home directory backup tomorrow and then we can ask them to reinstall newer OS. We just need to make sure to tell them that > they should use a puppet configuration that contains all packages we need for Jenkins Slaves. > Uwe
