Akshay Lamba wrote: > Hey thanks for that brad. My local server here has been running on 6.06 > LTS and I was waiting on hearing some upgrade reports before I go down > that road myself.
My co-lo servers are staying with 6.06LTS (if it ain't broke 'n all that) but I just got sick of backporting and compiling software for my 6.06 laptop as required (ekiga, pidgin, bluez-utils, hal - required for newer kernels, gnome-power-manager - required for newer hal.. and so on..). I guess I'd probably upgraded about 25% of the entire distribution over the last 18 months and had it running "just right".. but it was getting tiring having to manage two completely different software repositories and keep things synced with my desktop. I was *really* nervous about the upgrade.. and I made full machine backups first to make it easy to roll back if something exploded, but thankfully it all went relatively smoothly. I have a hack by a guy in Perth called "dbus-hooks" that I use to restart some persistent ssh sessions, voip software and my vpn's whenever my network goes up or down.. and I had to forward port that to the latest version of python-dbus (which did take me a couple of hours - the documentation for python-dbus is slightly less informative than the actual source!). So all up, given I'd already downloaded 900MB of debs when I upgraded my desktop, I had to download about 100MB of files, plus 2 hours for the actual upgrade. An hour to debug my custom tuxonice (what a horrid name) kernels and get things straight there, and 2 hours to fix up python-dbus.. I'm now back to where I was before I started the upgrade, except everything is now shiny and new! and compiz actually works! BONUS! Brad -- "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." -- Douglas Adams
