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| 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 |
| References | <V5qdnfQp3cnMLOjLnZ2dnUU7-V2dnZ2d@earthlink.com> <n55r2u$r3c$1@usenet.pasdenom.info> |
| Message-ID | <eoydnbLdk627B-rLnZ2dnUU7-R2dnZ2d@earthlink.com> (permalink) |
| Date | 2015-12-21 00:20 -0600 |
Cross-posted to 2 groups.
> > 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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