Salut Stephane, On Tue, 2023-01-24 at 15:53:03 +0100, Stephane Vaillant wrote: > Le 24/01/2023 à 10:09, Steffen Grunewald a écrit : > > Hello, > > > > is there anyone using plain Debian with Slurm (as provided by the OS > > repository), > > who might have suggestions for our upgrade from Buster to Bullseye? > > Of course we'd like to keep the database (user definitions and job > > history), but > > We're now running version 18.08.5.2 (Buster's version) while Bullseye comes > > with > > 20.11.x, which is beyond the 2-version upgrade range. Is there hope (and > > how to > > verify that) that a dist-upgrade would do the right thing? > > Hello, > > I've done an upgrade from Debian 7 (slurm 2.3.4) to Debian 8 (slurm > 14.03.9).
I don't remember when the naming scheme was changed... but apparently it took you two intermediate stages: > - download and compile an intermediary version (2.4.5) > - redo the same for another intermediary version (2.6.9) > - finally install slurm from Debian 8 (14.03.9) [...] > Preparing the upgrade procedure on an experimental setup was time consuming > but rewarding. If this slurmdbd machine was the only thing I'd have to care about I might consider going the same way, but... ... basically you're saying that for Deb 7->8 no smooth dist-upgrade was possible. Given that my upgrade path will be 10->11, I'm still hoping that this might be easier. My user base is small, and the history isn't too valuable, so I might as well start from scratch. Thanks, Steffen
