DdB wrote: > while still on debian buster (old-old-stable soon), i am approaching the > point, where i will be ready to upgrade. I do have backup(s) from > different points in time, and can carry out restore to a VM, that is > almost identical to my main system, that i can use as a playground for > playing through the whole process. > > But i could not yet decide upon the right way to progress, 3 > alternatives coming to mind: > 1. Upgrade from current configuration using upgrade path tools (apt) and > plan only one step (going to bullseye) at a time, eventually having to > upgrade a second time later.
Upgrade buster to bullseye, reboot, upgrade to bookworm. Solve the final set of problems, not all the intermediates which may have been fixed. > >From my past experiences, i recall one problem, that i am still > suffering from: the file group and user owners, that reside on a > different disk set (on a ZFS pool, to be more precise). In order to > alleviate the problem, i did at one point fetch an older /etc/group and > passwd file from a backup and created a mess. I'd love to straigthen > this out now. If you have owner/group problems now, solve them before any of the upgrades. -dsr-
