Am Samstag, 1. September 2018 schrieb Simon Hobson: > Steve Litt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Install fresh, copy your data, and you're 90% done. There will be a few > > special configs you'll need to edit in the new system, based on the old. > > There is something to be said for that. One of the issues I've had with a > number of upgrades is the config changes - you get loads of "your config has > been edited, what do you want to do" dialogs for all those packages where you > edit the one config file. And then there are all the changes, especially if > you were running some new hand installed package and it's now available as a > distro native installer package. > > Trouble is, unless you do both then you don't know which is more work - > updating your existing config, or recreating it :-/
And when you go wheezy->jessie->ascii, you'll end up with a lot of "undead" packages without upgrade candidate or things you put on hold ages ago: $ apt-show-versions |grep --invert-match '\(uptodate\|not installed\|newer than version in archive\)' $ apt-show-versions |grep --invert-match 'No available version' And lots of configs of those: $ dpkg -l|grep ^rc You will most likely want purge all of them ... and probably shoot yourself in the foot on the way by removing :amd64 instead of the :i386 version, so keep your eyes open ;) Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
