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Re: Stretch to buster

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OP, are you on x86?  amd64?

Cheers!
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Boyan Penkov
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> On Feb 9, 2019, at 16:29, Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 9 Feb 2019 07:48:00 +0000
> Paul Sutton <zleap@disroot.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 09/02/2019 02:22, Peter Ehlert wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 2/8/19 11:09 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote:  
>>>> On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 15:06:34 +0000
>>>> Paul Sutton <zleap@disroot.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Updated from Stretch to Buster (non-free) the other day all went fine,
>>>>> just undertaken  
>>>> Why?  Buster is still alpha.  A lot can still go wrong.  Hope it's not
>>>> your primary use distro.  
>>> Why?: 1. migrate now, or later this year when Buster is the new Stable.
>>> 2. Newer features. Mate 1.20 is great, so is 1.16 but there have been
>>> several "new shiny things" I like.
>>> 
>>> alpha? maybe so: Been using Buster on one machine for 6 months or a
>>> year, no issues... none that lasted more than the next update anyway.
>>> The last couple months zip.
>>> 
>>> I have other distros available on the machines. My data is always
>>> accessible.  
>>>> 
>>>>> apt update && apt upgrade  
>>>> With testing, dist-upgrade is the recommended upgrade procedure. That
>>>> would be 'full-upgrade' with apt, if memory serves.  Read the
>>>> manual for why.  
>>> 
>>> my procedure was dead simple:
>>> 
>>> using Pluma:
>>> edit both /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/base.list  
>>>> replace stretch with buster  
>>> 
>>> using Synaptic: refresh and update ... took about an hour.
>>> 
>>> reboot and all was good
>>> 
>>>>> today and  all seem to go fine,  The process seems to be pretty
>>>>> painless
>>>>> for the most part.  
>>>> Well I think that's because Debian's alphas are everybody else's betas
>>>> or better.  
>>> true that! packages have to be in pretty good shape to get to the
>>> Buster repo
>>> excellent vetting process
>>> 
>>> I have a spare netbook, which was running stretch, not really being used
>>> for much as I have my main desktop / netbook for general use / work.  
>>> However why not upgrade and test.  I am sure given the comments to this
>>> thread with regard to no problems etc is of great comfort to the
>>> developers. 
>>> 
>>> I can't do much,  as I am probably not technical enough.  I can run the
>>> update commands,  and see what happens,  I have an idea on how to pipe
>>> these messages to a file.  This can be shared and hopefully be useful.
>>> 
>>> If I share issues here others may be able to say if they have the same
>>> issue.  For the most part we can discuss the experiences here and
>>> confirm issues.
>>> 
>>> The about myself tool still comes up with 'unknown error' when trying to
>>> apply changes.
>>> 
>>> xfce menu -> debian - applications -> system - administration - about myself
>>> 
>>> enter info - apply - password - unknown error
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Paul  
> 
> Thanks to both Paul & Peter for their dist-upgrade reasons -- some
> practical, others "bright shiny new toy."
> 
> As for me, I'm the patient, very practical type.  Debian is my distro
> of choice after almost 20 years of using other Linuxes because of its
> philosophy of stability and bug-freeness above all else. I'll wait
> until Buster is in Release Candidate status before testing it in a VM.
> Normally, I wouldn't bother since I usually only upgrade every other
> release after LTS ceases on my primary install.  But this time, Buster
> includes support for AMD's Ryzen APU series which a notebook I'm
> considering purchasing around summertime uses.
> 
> Thanks, again.  You never can have too much info. ;-)
> 
> B
> 

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  Re: Stretch to buster Peter Ehlert <peter@sdi-baja.com> - 2019-02-08 17:40 +0100
  Re: Stretch to buster Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2019-02-08 20:10 +0100
    Re: Stretch to buster Peter Ehlert <peter@sdi-baja.com> - 2019-02-09 03:40 +0100
      Re: Stretch to buster Paul Sutton <zleap@disroot.org> - 2019-02-09 08:50 +0100
        Re: Stretch to buster Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2019-02-09 22:40 +0100
          Re: Stretch to buster Boyan Penkov <boyan.penkov@gmail.com> - 2019-02-09 23:10 +0100
          Re: Stretch to buster deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-02-10 00:10 +0100
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              Re: Stretch to buster Keith Bainbridge <keithrbau@gmail.com> - 2019-02-12 09:40 +0100
            Re: Stretch to buster Peter Ehlert <peter@sdi-baja.com> - 2019-02-10 01:30 +0100
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