Re: Upgrading to stretch (jessie-backports question)

From	Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Upgrading to stretch (jessie-backports question)
Date	2017-12-07 22:00 +0100
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On Thu 07 Dec 2017 at 21:02:38 +0100, John Naggets wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 8:29 PM, Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
> 
> >> Actually moving on the Debian stretch I would not need anymore the
> >> backports because the ZFS packages are included in stretch. So could I
> >> just get rid of my backports APT source by deleting my list file
> >> beforehand and then simply do a dist-upgrade?
> >
> > My personal recommendation would be to comment out (or delete) the
> > old backports line(s).  If in the future you find yourself wanting
> > stretch-backports (from buster) then add the new backports line at
> > that time.
> 
> I think I will go for that variant as it makes the most sense to me.

It doesn't make any difference. The update and upgrade will not get
any packages from jessie-backports. But, whatever suits you.
 
> What about third-party APT repositories sources such as for MongoDB,
> Nextcloud, etc, would one simply replace "jessie" with "stretch" in
> the sources files at the same time as for the official Debian APT
> repositories before running a dist-upgrade?

By all means. Whether they have stretch versions is a different
matter.

-- 
Brian

Thread

Upgrading to stretch (jessie-backports question) John Naggets <hostingnuggets@gmail.com> - 2017-12-07 18:10 +0100
  Re: Upgrading to stretch (jessie-backports question) Tom Furie <tom@furie.org.uk> - 2017-12-07 18:20 +0100
    Re: Upgrading to stretch (jessie-backports question) Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-12-07 18:40 +0100
      Re: Upgrading to stretch (jessie-backports question) John Naggets <hostingnuggets@gmail.com> - 2017-12-07 20:20 +0100
        Re: Upgrading to stretch (jessie-backports question) Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-12-07 20:30 +0100
        Re: Upgrading to stretch (jessie-backports question) Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-12-07 20:40 +0100
          Re: Upgrading to stretch (jessie-backports question) John Naggets <hostingnuggets@gmail.com> - 2017-12-07 21:10 +0100
            Re: Upgrading to stretch (jessie-backports question) Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-12-07 22:00 +0100
    Re: Upgrading to stretch (jessie-backports question) John Naggets <hostingnuggets@gmail.com> - 2017-12-07 18:40 +0100

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