On 6/15/05, John H. Robinson, IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
For now, I will just upgrade all the Woody packages, and wait a month
or two. Perhaps the best thing to do is back up anything personal and
custom, and then do a clean install of Sarge, rather than trying to do
the much-touted Debian dist-upgrade.
I _would_ like to get a newer version of the kernel so I can do bind mounts.
carl
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