Re: [DNG] Devuan Jessie -> ASCII successful upgrade reports
On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 05:46:05PM -0600, Don Wright wrote: > Might as well start a thread for those of us who /didn't/ have significant > issues upgrading from Devuan Jessie to ASCII as our part of the sprint, just > to provide some balance to the problem-oriented bug database and other > reports. I'll reply separately with my own narrative. I copied my jessie system and got it to run just in case, but I haven't had to go back to it. No problems upgrading, except I had to dist-upgrade twice to get everything done. Only one package broke -- lprng. It ended up bing only partially installed. Its job is to talk to my printer. But, partially installed or not, it seems to work, and I have no difficulty printing. -- hendrik ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] Devuan Jessie -> ASCII successful upgrade reports
On 2017-12-23 23:46, Don Wright wrote: > Might as well start a thread for those of us who /didn't/ have significant > issues upgrading from Devuan Jessie to ASCII as our part of the sprint, just > to provide some balance to the problem-oriented bug database and other > reports. I'll reply separately with my own narrative. I think I've upgraded, seemed fine. Ethernet only x86 intel desktop. I've only fairly recently installed Devuan so it's possible it was always on Ascii? Works well though! Luke ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
[DNG] Devuan Jessie -> ASCII successful upgrade reports
Jessie (Devuanised) upgrade to ASCII was successful with a few dpkg messages. The system asked how and when daemons could be restarted and listed non-empty directories that couldn't be removed. The adwaita icons failed to be copied: the upgrade gave me this warning. I also ended up with two versions of the Lazarus Pascal IDE being installed. System boot seems to take longer than before but this is a machine from the Paleozoic era! Now, after more than a year I can enjoy once again web-browsing free from nagging advertisements. It is still too early to make a proper evaluation of the entire upgrade but I pleased to heaven's high that my Linux experience is slowly being restored to what it used to be. Well done from the deepest of my heart! There must be some real gurus working on Devuan: the network is fast delivering about 4 Mega Bytes per second. Thanks. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] Devuan Jessie -> ASCII successful upgrade reports
Experimental subject is an Intel Pentium Core2Duo e6300, ASRock P43DE mainboard, 4GB RAM, MSI (nVIDIA) NX6200TC-128G video, wired gig-E network, SATA HDD, everything in / except separate swap - a pretty plain toybox. It had served as my primary machine, then was regularly used to demo Linux at community events, and now helps in the home network. Pretty sure I used the amd64 arch on this box from the start, except for live DVDs being demoed. I had long ago upgraded from Wheezy to Devuan Jessie, avoiding Debian Jezzie[1], and had changed the repositories to pkgmaster.devuan.org soon after that was announced as working. I simply copied/edited the sources.list(.d) entries for jessie to ascii (leaving both active), pinned packages to stable as best I could[2], and satisfied myself I was fetching the necessary package lists. Then I unpinned, ran apt-get dist-upgrade, and looked the list over before committing. Only one minor item stood out, so I said to go ahead and upgrade. O-kay. A lot of maintainer change notices here. Fortunately most of them don't seem to apply to my use of this box. Still, it's the most change I've seen in the De??an universe in a long time. Perhaps because I followed 'testing' before and didn't generally see the changes all at once, but a bit of a shock none the less. Funny/sad to see notices reverting changes just put in. On reboot everything seemed to work as expected, except it was faster! I didn't expect that. Remote login was faster, apt-get update was faster, aptitude was... missing. OK, I expected that; dist-upgrade had told me it was going to be deleted even though aptitude-common was being upgraded.[3] A quick (literally) apt-get install aptitude returned the interface I've known since Woody, and I was back to doing everything I did before. Just faster. While there was some mention of XFCE updates in the dist-upgrade report, LXDE was still active from what I could see. Solitaire played, Firefox fired; all in all, a good upgrade experience. --Don [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jezebel [2] Non-critical system does not mean disposable. [3] Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards... ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
[DNG] Devuan Jessie -> ASCII successful upgrade reports
Might as well start a thread for those of us who /didn't/ have significant issues upgrading from Devuan Jessie to ASCII as our part of the sprint, just to provide some balance to the problem-oriented bug database and other reports. I'll reply separately with my own narrative. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
