On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 11:54:54AM +0200, Wolfgang Schweer wrote: > On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 11:36:01AM +0200, Giorgio Pioda wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 11:27:41AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > > [Giorgio Pioda] > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > are there some caveats running apt-get dist-upgrade > > > > on jessie/tjener after the release? > > > > > > Running 'apt-get dist-upgrade' will not move from Wheezy to Jessie, if > > > that is what you worry about. For that you will need to edit > > > /etc/apt/sources.list* first. > > > > > > There are problems associated with using APT to upgrade from Wheezy to > > > Jessie, mostly associated the fact that any problem will leave you with > > > a broken server (ie burning the bridge as you move over it). For that > > > reason alone I would recommend installing a replacement server and test > > > it before dropping the old server. > > > > > > There is also the issue with configuration files (and conffiles) > > > changing format and fields. One need to be careful with those when > > > upgrading using apt. > > > > > > Luckily all of /etc/ is kept in git using etckeeper, so it is possible > > > to figure out exactly what was changed during upgrades. > > > > > > Sorry, I didn't explain it correctly. > > > > I'm already running Jessie/Skole (since July 2015). > > > > I just fear that some single packages may give problems. > > > > IIRC I had the same two years ago as wheezy became stable; > > I had to fix a couple of things in Gosa and in the > > lsb-release file. > > Just keep gosa.conf if prompted. IIRC there's been a new gosa version > shipped with stock Debian 8.5 on June 4th. If you've updated regurarly > the gosa update has already happened. > > Wolfgang
Perhaps somethings about /etc/apt/sources.list I have some automatically commented lines for skolelinux like you can see below, that need to be uncommented? ********************** # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 8.0+edu0~b1 _Jessie_ - Unofficial Multi-architecture amd64/i386 NETINST #1 20150618-18:42]/ jessie contrib main non-free deb http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib ## Debian Edu jessie repository # Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify: #deb http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux jessie local # Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify: #deb-src http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux jessie local # deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free # jessie-updates, previously known as 'volatile' deb http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free deb http://http.debian.net/debian jessie main contrib non-free ************************** Regards Giorgio -- Giorgio Pioda - Sysadmin SPSE-Tenero Cell +41 79 629 20 63 Tel +41 58 468 62 48
