On Mon, 12 Jun 2023 18:02:13 +0100 Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon 12 Jun 2023 at 08:50:54 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > On Sun, 11 Jun 2023 12:31:31 -0400 > > Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > The machine I am typing on has been upgraded from bullseye to > > > bookworm. TL;DR: boring, which is good. > > > > ... > > > > > I read the release notes. > > > > > > Changed sources.list entries. > > > > > > Ran apt update. > > > > > > I ran apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs before apt full-upgrade. > > > Then I rebooted. > > > > > > Everything's working. In the end, I didn't make any config > > > changes (left everything as "keep current config"). > > > > This is the part that always stresses me out; I often have changes in > > the default config files that I don't want to lose, but I'm also > > worried about not getting the latest versions of the config files. I > > usually try to accept the new files and manually bring in any important > > changes I've made to the old ones, but this takes time and patience to > > do right, and things can break if not done right :) > > I have taken to assuming that detected changes are due to my efforts Often, but apparently not always. For example, on one of my upgrades, the old sshd_config had: ********** # Change to yes to enable challenge-response passwords (beware issues with # some PAM modules and threads) ChallengeResponseAuthentication no ********** whereas the new one had: ********** # Change to yes to enable challenge-response passwords (beware issues with # some PAM modules and threads) KbdInteractiveAuthentication no ********** Is this important? What would have happened had I left the old version, as opposed to switching to the new version? Presumably nothing, since I'm using the safer default setting in either case, and I suppose I could have taken the time to track down the change and its implications, but running into these types of situations while upgrading can be disconcerting. > and reject the package version offered. Less stressful and speeds up > the installation. If necessary, I investigate afterwards. This is probably the logical thing to do, but I'm always worried that there may be new settings that should be set, and so on. -- Celejar
