Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian

From	Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian
Date	2017-11-29 20:00 +0100
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On 11/29/2017 01:01 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 03:42:15PM +0000, Richard Zimmerman wrote:
>> I'm pretty new to the Debian list here
> 
> Welcome aboard!
> 
>> but over on the CentOS list I'm on, migrating from init system to
>> systemd isn't for the faint of heart as I understand it.
> 
> There's more of a culture of upgrade rather than reinstall in Debian
> than in CentOS and family, in general. The systemd upgrade was handled
> very well and was seamless for most people; however, someone upgrading
> from such a long release ago is not something that will have been
> thoroughly tested and it's quite possible that an old init script that
> was modified (and therefore won't be replaced by package upgrades) could
> come along for the ride and cause problems.

Hi Jonathan, and that's the reason I would choose Wheezy as the target 
to upgrade to where the only thing sys.d is login.d and there's not a 
lot of plasma to deal with.

But I'm the weird guy who thinks upgrading is mostly always a fun 
learning experience where I get to use the tools Debian has given me, 
synaptic, apt, aptitude, dpkg, upgrade-system, gtkorphan, etc.

Cheers!
-- 
Jimmy Johnson

KDE Plasma 5.8.7 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda2
Registered Linux User #380263

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Upgrading from very-old Debian The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2017-11-28 16:30 +0100
  Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2017-11-28 16:40 +0100
    Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2017-11-28 17:00 +0100
      Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-11-28 17:10 +0100
    Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2017-11-28 18:10 +0100
    Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2017-11-29 10:10 +0100
      Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-11-29 20:00 +0100
      Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-11-29 20:10 +0100
        Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2017-11-30 21:20 +0100
        Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2017-12-01 15:30 +0100
          Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-12-01 22:00 +0100
            Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian (and xtoolwait) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-12-02 16:00 +0100
      Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2017-11-29 21:30 +0100
  Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2017-11-28 18:00 +0100
    Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2017-11-28 18:00 +0100
      Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-11-28 23:40 +0100
      Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian Jan <jan@dwrox.net> - 2017-11-29 08:00 +0100
        Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian Umarzuki Mochlis <umarzuki@gmail.com> - 2017-11-29 08:20 +0100
        Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@gmail.com> - 2017-11-29 08:50 +0100
  Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-11-28 20:30 +0100
    Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@gmail.com> - 2017-11-28 21:30 +0100

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