Re: Looking for inspiration/advice/best practices on system upgrade

From	"Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Looking for inspiration/advice/best practices on system upgrade
Date	2023-04-25 09:20 +0200
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On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 12:16:54AM +0200, DdB wrote:
> Thank you for providing your take on this.
> 
> Am 24.04.2023 um 19:46 schrieb Dan Ritter:
> > Upgrade buster to bullseye, reboot, upgrade to bookworm.
> > 

Read the release notes for bullseye.

Change /etc/apt/sources.list to suit.

Upgrade buster to bullseye - reboot.

Check with apt as to anything that you should autoremove.

Read the release notes for bookworm

Change /etc/apt/sources.list to suit

Upgrade bullseye to bookworm

Reboot and check for autoremovals

[There's two sets of changes to /etc/apt/sources.list necessary to 
accommodate changes to bullseye security and bookworm non-free-firmware
but you won't know that unless you read the release notes]

> > Solve the final set of problems, not all the intermediates which
> > may have been fixed.
> interesting consideration there. :-)
> > (...) If you have owner/group problems now, solve them before any of the
> > upgrades.
> That is, what i was thinking too. Unfortunately, i am afraid of this
> step. That is why i had been builing a kind of playground first.
> > 

That depends on owner and group problem extent. If you're not sure,
then the wise thing is to spin up a virtual machine or some such and
check what the groups are on the new system *first* then match your
old modified system to the new model? It's probably not worth trying
to upgrade and still being unsure.

Andy

> > -dsr-
> > 
> > 
>

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Re: Looking for inspiration/advice/best practices on system upgrade Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2023-04-24 20:10 +0200
  Re: Looking for inspiration/advice/best practices on system upgrade "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2023-04-25 09:20 +0200

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