softwatt <softw...@gmx.com> wrote: > Hello. How does one upgrade the distro? I have searched the web but I > am getting some contradictions, and I am hesitant to mess things up.
> All websites suggest updating the /etc/apt/sources.list file. This > makes a lot of sense. However, the consensus ends here. Beyond that, I > have no idea what's correct. > Some suggest a simple `apt-get update` followed by an `apt-get > dis-upgrade` > Some suggest: > apt-get update > apt-get install apt dpkg aptitude > apt-get --download-only dist-upgrade > apt-get dist-upgrade > Some even suggest updating the kernel using and apt-get install kernel-* > stuff. (Subquestion: does dist-upgrade update the kernel?) > Enlighten me! What is the proper way to do this? The proper way is the way outlined in the relase notes. That said: I normally use the way you mentioned above, only omitting the "download-only" phase. On some systems it has been necessary (during the Squeeze to Wheezy upgrade) to first use only "apt-get upgrade" after upgrading apt and dpkg and then issuing the full dist-upgrade as final step to get a smoother upgrade. This where mostly systems which had already been upgraded from Sarge to Etch to Lenny to Squeeze and had a good amount of locally backported packages on them. So YMMV, the older a system is the more problems or obscurities you have to expect. This leads to a newish trend in systems administration, facilitated by widespread use of virtualisation or container techniques: never upgrade a system to a new release, just "spawn" a new and fresh installed one and copy your data/application/whatever over. Combined with tools like Puppet/Chef/Ansible this provides you with a reproducible and always "factory fresh" operating system without the cobwebs of years of past upgrades in the basement. But I digress. Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped. -- 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/3b0hqg876...@mids.svenhartge.de
