Carl Lowenstein wrote: > Now that Sarge is released, I think it time to upgrade my DEC Alpha, > which has been running along on Woody for quite a while. > > The release notes for Sarge tell me how to make sure that I am still > doing Woody updates if needed, before upgrading the whole system to > Sarge. It is not clear to me whether I should update all software to > the latest versions available for Woody before doing the major version > upgrade. > > Is upgrading first to the most recent version of the previous release > necessary, or just nice to do, or absolutely superfluous?
Not having gone through the upgrade process yet myself, I'd be tempted to say Not Required. However, the upgrade from Woody to Sarge is not as simple as point to the new sources, and apt-get dist-upgrade. There are a few steps to go through first, such as upgrading certain packages prior to the dist-upgrade (apt and spkg are two that come to mind). This has been tested with the latest of Woody packages, not so with perhaps more legacy woody packages. Of course, the only ones that would have gotten updated were the ones with security patches anyway. You will probably be OK, but you will also be a beta-tester. Or an Alpha-tester, as the case may be. -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
