On Thursday, May 12, 2011 11:34 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Thursday, May 12, 2011 06:23:52 AM Christopher Chan wrote: >> 6.04->10.04? Nah, you are supposed to jump to 8.04 and then to 10.04. > > I did 6.06 -> 8.04 -> 10.04, and it broke. Badly.
Ahem. With apt-get dist-upgrade or do-release-upgrade? Things break with apt...do-release-upgrade apparently has some extra logic to not break things... > >>> Upgrades are difficult problems to solve, and at the moment I don't know of >>> any distribution (that claims upgradability) that gets it completely right >>> for all the cases I've tried. >> >> Not even Debian? > > The one box I ran Debian on was somewhat unusual, and I lost SMP capability > on the box upgrading the one time I did. The box is a DEC AlphaServer 2100 > (Sable), and Sable SMP is hard to get these days; the last Debian kernel I > know of that supported it was a 2.2 series kernel...... > oh. Ah well, I hoped to see some response as I have not ever used Debian yet. > Looking more like I'm going to do at least one, and possibly more, SPARCs on > Debian, I'll get a little more experience with it then. I'd rather do > CentOS, and be consistent across servers in terms of administration.... Then we can know for sure that Ubuntu really mucked things up and therefore their special upgrade tool. > >> On the OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana side of things, I have not had problems. >> And you get a complete rollback option too as a bonus. > > Rollbacks would be good. Maybe after btrfs becomes stable and standard... _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
