UTC Time: June 13, 2017 10:05 AM From: peturv...@gmail.com Hi everyone,
I have a computer which does not need anymore to be running the unstable version. I would like to migrate it to stable at some point. If I backup the home and rsync it on a new installation of Debian stable, I will have problems with the downgrade of softwares settings. 1 Switch your repos to stretch (stable any minute now) and progressively it may catch up. With synaptic on the preferences you can force it to prefer stretch over anything else. Officially it should not be done, but at this point and instance sid is not far from stretch due to the long freeze. Eventually when stretch's version of the package exceeds that of your current system it will upgrade. In a few months you will probably be all stretch'ed out and stable! You can install stretch's linux-kernel alongside with the sid's and boot from both and run all packages you have essential to your work. Either leave them both (but higher will be the default) or after you see that everything works with 4.9 delete the 4.10 Don't forget to add again the security.debian.org repository which does not exist in sid. I am not in a hurry and could slowly migrate to stable. But I am not sure changing the repositories to stable and wait with no update during a while is a good idea. The default is that it only upgrades to a package with a higher version number. If your system is running fine there should be no need to reinstall stretch. Now Jessie is a different animal. I could not think of a proper (and somehow automatic) way to do this. Is there one? Proper no, official no, but trust me it works but hurry up before stretch becomes stable as there would be two systems away from sid. Pétùr (AK)
