On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 12:49:28 +0200
Riccardo Mottola via Dng <dng@lists.dyne.org> wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I just upgraded from ascii to beowulf a pretty decent laptop, equipped
> with a core i7 and 8GB of RAM.
>
> I upgraded everything in place: so same desktop environment, same
> applications, same hard disk... just "apt-get dist-upgrade"
> essentially.
BLINK! Perhaps I'm just a belts and braces guy, but there was a pile
more work I carried out.
0.Started with Devuan ascii system with ascii-backports in sources,conf.
1. Check system up to date in ascii files;
1a apt-get update
1b apt-get upgrade
1c apt-get dist-upgrade
2. In /etc/apt/sources.conf s/ascii/beowulf/
3. Then did the trio again.
3a apt-get update
3b apt-get upgrade changed ~700 files.
3c apt-get dist-upgrade changed around 700 files.
4. Hardware reboot without error.
5. Then did the trio again.
5. Finally apt autoremove.
Actuall all commands were sudo <command>.
These are just spare headless machines with base user level install that
seldom get used and I thought were up to date, so I was really surprised
at the number of files to be upgraded. Both(to date) have no prior
Devuan or other distro history.
The reason I do it that way, is the culmulative experience of version
upgrades that have crashed and burned over the decades.
For these machines, I didn't back anything as they are non essential
and if they crash & burn, it is ISO onto cd/DVD time and a complete
clean out.
Anyway, posted For What It Is Worth,
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