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Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3

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On 04/21/2022 07:34 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> Richard Owlett wrote:
>> I am not upgrading in place.
>>
>> I currently have Debian 9.13 installed on one partition with /home on a
>> different partition.
>>
>> I will install Debian 11.3 on a fresh partition and have /home remain on its
>> current partition.
>>
>> I'm aware of cautions about upgrading in-place  cf [https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html]
>>
>> Are there things to be aware of when using the same /home partition on both?
> 
> There are edge cases, but nothing major.
> 
> For example, if you write lots of interpreted programs, you may
> discover that a Debian-supplied language has been upgraded --
> say, Python 2 to Python 3 -- and some programs need to be fixed.

I don't write much code and just about all of it is shell commands.
IIRC any program I put under /home is self-contained w.o. external 
dependencies.


> 
> If you have hardcoded paths to /usr/bin, note that you may have
> errors because those programs are now in /bin.

I assume any problem there cause things to come to a screeching halt.
IOW existence of a problem will be obvious.

> 
> It is possible, if you are careful, to share /home between
> different operating systems. Not just different Linux distros,
> but BSDs and other UNIXoids.
> 
> -dsr-
> 
> 
> 

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Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3 Richard Owlett <rcowlett@cloud85.net> - 2022-04-21 14:30 +0200
  Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3 "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2022-04-21 14:40 +0200
  Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3 <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-04-21 15:00 +0200
    Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3 Richard Owlett <rcowlett@cloud85.net> - 2022-04-21 17:00 +0200
      Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3 Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> - 2022-04-21 17:20 +0200
        Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3 Richard Owlett <rcowlett@cloud85.net> - 2022-04-21 20:30 +0200
          Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3 David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-04-21 23:00 +0200
    Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3 David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2022-04-21 22:10 +0200
      CMOS clock (was: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3) Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2022-04-21 23:30 +0200
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  Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3 Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-04-21 15:00 +0200
    Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3 Richard Owlett <rcowlett@cloud85.net> - 2022-04-21 16:10 +0200
  Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3 Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2022-04-21 15:50 +0200
    Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3 Richard Owlett <rcowlett@cloud85.net> - 2022-04-21 17:20 +0200
      Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3 Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2022-04-21 18:50 +0200
  Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3 Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2022-04-21 17:30 +0200
  Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3 David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-04-21 19:30 +0200
  [Path forward] WAS: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3 Richard Owlett <rcowlett@cloud85.net> - 2022-04-22 11:00 +0200

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