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Re: upgrading and stuff

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Hi,

On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 06:22:17PM -0400, songbird wrote:
> Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:

[Upgrading from Debian 8.11]

>   don't waste any more time trying to upgrade from a version that
> ancient.

I've done 8 to 10 (by way of 9) on ten different machines in the
year preceding the 11 release and I didn't find it very difficult or
time-consuming, though admittedly these were servers and those tend
to be less complex than desktops.

I'm not sure that going from 10 to 11 would add that much extra
work; it really depends on what packages are installed and how
carefully their configuration changes must be examined.

But yeah I wouldn't recommend it without that qualification, and it
may well be the case that a clean install is simpler and faster at
that point. A lot of people prefer that even for version x to
version x+1 changes.

Cheers,
Andy

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upgrading and stuff "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2021-09-25 23:40 +0200
  Re: upgrading and stuff Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2021-09-26 00:10 +0200
    Re: upgrading and stuff Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-09-26 11:30 +0200
    Re: upgrading and stuff "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2021-09-26 18:50 +0200
      Re: upgrading and stuff "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-09-26 19:30 +0200
  Re: upgrading and stuff songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-09-26 00:30 +0200
    Re: upgrading and stuff Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2021-09-26 01:20 +0200
      Re: upgrading and stuff Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2021-09-26 09:10 +0200
  Re: upgrading and stuff Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-09-26 00:40 +0200
    Re: upgrading and stuff "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2021-09-26 19:10 +0200
      Re: upgrading and stuff Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-09-26 19:50 +0200
      Re: upgrading and stuff "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-09-26 20:00 +0200
        Re: upgrading and stuff "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2021-09-27 16:30 +0200

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