Tom H wrote: >Joe wrote: ... >> There will only be a few who claim that jumping a release is a great >> thing to do. > > There's already been one thread about this on debian-devel@ and it was > a typical thread where the pro and con make their points but no > decision's reached. That discussion'll be back because there are > people who think that they ought to be able to go from squeeze-lts to > jessie in one step - and they'll tell you that one upgrade is safer > than two.
based upon my recent attempt to jump versions it's really much easier to back up your user data and then reinstall. i ran into all sorts of chicken and egg problems and didn't have the right bits locally to make the transition (specifically there was a version of tar that is used to unpack the debs and in one case it could not understand the .xz format and thus would not work in any fashion and to get a version installed that would work meant having to upgrade libc and that then dragged in all sorts of things like multiarch)... it was much more involved than an initial install. i really suspect that is the most direct answer that applies from those who would be concerned with making it work. if i'd had a more recent media download i would have stopped after about a half hour of attempts and just done that. but it _was_ an interesting exercise... songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/44iv9b-hm1....@id-306963.user.uni-berlin.de
