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Re: Anything I should worry about before upgrading my Debian oldstable (Wheezy) to stable (Jessie)?

From ANTant@zimage.com (Ant)
Subject Re: Anything I should worry about before upgrading my Debian oldstable (Wheezy) to stable (Jessie)?
Newsgroups alt.os.linux.debian, comp.os.linux.setup
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Date 2015-12-21 00:20 -0600

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> > With my almost 1.5 weeks Christmas 2015 break coming up, I think it is 
> > time to finally upgrade (not a clean install?) my old Debian oldstable 
> > to stable (Wheezy) in case anything goes wrong (am pretty sure something 
> > will break) with the free time I will have. It is just a basic 
> > desktop/workstation/server/backup machine.
> > 
> > From https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ and 
> > other sources, I read that some packages will be removed, like 
> > DenyHosts, so I will have to find a replacement. Also, I am not sure if 

> For denyHosts, you may can use the sid package :
> <https://packages.debian.org/sid/denyhosts>

But will it still work?


> The page
> <https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.dist-upgrade.html> may
> be usefull.


> > I have enough free disk space for Kernels and stuff. This is what I have 
> > currently on my tiny 115 GB SSD (you can see the rest of my secondary 
> > computer (specification/detail)s in 
> > http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/about/MyComputerStuff.txt ). Systemd 
> > seems to be a big change for upgrades due to being new and changing a 
> > lot of things. :(

> systemd is working well. I didn't had trouble with it.

> I had to replace :
> dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.UPower \
> /org/freedesktop/UPower org.freedesktop.UPower.Suspend >/dev/null 2>&1

> with :
> systemctl suspend

Is that power management?


> I didn't test brtfs, ext4 is working well.

I only use ext4. :)


> > $ df
> > Filesystem                                             1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > rootfs                                                    960504    591852    319860  65% /
> > udev                                                       10240         0     10240   0% /dev
> > tmpfs                                                     206052      2120    203932   2% /run
> > /dev/disk/by-uuid/242d81f2-8a0d-48e1-a144-22ab4d2b9407    960504    591852    319860  65% /
> > tmpfs                                                       5120         8      5112   1% /run/lock
> > tmpfs                                                    1193200        80   1193120   1% /run/shm
> > /dev/sda9                                               50013916   2699516  44773808   6% /home
> > /dev/sda5                                                 960504     17672    894040   2% /tmp
> > /dev/sda8                                               49982172   6720980  40722184  15% /usr
> > /dev/sda6                                                4804736   1881892   2678776  42% /var
> > ...
> > 
> > http://pastebin.com/raw/C0JnbFay for my current long "dpkg -l" listing.
> > 
> > Oldstable's apt:
> > $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
> > #############################################################
> > ################### OFFICIAL DEBIAN REPOS ###################
> > #############################################################
> > 
> > #deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
> > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy main contrib non-free
> > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free
> > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-proposed-updates main 
> > contrib non-free
> > #deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian wheezy-updates main contrib
> > deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
> > 
> > # Debian Backports - http://backports.debian.org/
> > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-backports main contrib non-free
> > #deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian wheezy-backports main contrib 
> > non-free
> > 
> > #Iceweasel (aka Firefox)
> > deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ wheezy-backports iceweasel-release
> > 
> > #Google
> > deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
> > deb http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb/ stable main
> > 
> > # Debian Multimedia
> > deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org oldstable main
> > deb ftp://ftp.deb-multimedia.org oldstable-backports main
> > deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org wheezy main non-free
> > deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org wheezy-backports main
> > 
> > I assume when I go to stable/Jessie, I will just rename all wheezy to 
> > jessie and oldstable to stable? Am I correct?

> Yes, you can first comment all backports or other external repositories.
> And after apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade && reboot
> Install all this backports if they are usefull.

> I think that the name of the release is better than stable in source.list.

> apt-cache policy package-name will be usefull.

> > 
> > Thank you in advance. :)

> wheezy to Jessie is only harder for Apache and INN2 upgrade. I had
> troubles with /boot and GRUB on an old machine.

Ah thanks. :)
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Anything I should worry about before upgrading my Debian oldstable (Wheezy) to stable (Jessie)? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2015-12-19 13:34 -0600
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