When is best time to upgrade lenny to squeeze
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From: Paul Cartwright on 20 Jul 2010 07:00 On Tue July 20 2010, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > I tend to use queries like this on my mixed system to determine how far > I've drifted from stable. Right now, on my laptop, 686/1312 packages are > from stable, 100/1312 are from backports, and 526/1312 are from testing. > Once I'm running "mostly" testing, I'll probably just read the current > draft of the release notes and do an upgrade at that time. back to the original question on the thread:) so, considering that I only have 4 packages installed from backports, what is the squeeze schedule, and I assume now is too early to upgrade? -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201007200655.37286.debian(a)pcartwright.com
From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. on 20 Jul 2010 18:10 On Tuesday 20 July 2010 05:55:37 Paul Cartwright wrote: > back to the original question on the thread:) so, considering that I only > have 4 packages installed from backports, what is the squeeze schedule, > and I assume now is too early to upgrade? Yes. Wait until the official release announcement. At that point, the release notes will contain upgrade information, which should involve the following steps: 0. Edit sources.list and update your apt cache. 1. Upgrade aptitude, apt, and perl. 2. Upgrade the kernel. 3. Reboot into the new kernel. 4. Upgrade the rest of the system. 5. Reboot into the new udev version. (Because of udev-related issues, this is a 2-reboot upgrade; most Debian upgrades are single-reboot.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss(a)iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
From: Paul Cartwright on 20 Jul 2010 18:30 On Tue July 20 2010, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > back to the original question on the thread:) so, considering that I only > > have 4 packages installed from backports, what is the squeeze schedule, > > and I assume now is too early to upgrade? > > Yes. Wait until the official release announcement. At that point, the > release notes will contain upgrade information, which should involve the > following steps: > 0. Edit sources.list and update your apt cache. > 1. Upgrade aptitude, apt, and perl. > 2. Upgrade the kernel. > 3. Reboot into the new kernel. > 4. Upgrade the rest of the system. > 5. Reboot into the new udev version. > > (Because of udev-related issues, this is a 2-reboot upgrade; most Debian > upgrades are single-reboot.) thanks for clearing that up & for all the info! I love the stable lenny release, I dread upgrading the kernel, mainly because of the NVIDIA driver.. not sure why, but it seems that every time I changed the kernel, besides X not working, it also made my network stop... but that's another story. For now I guess I'll just wait for the release! -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201007201820.07279.debian(a)pcartwright.com
From: Sjoerd Hardeman on 21 Jul 2010 04:40 Paul Cartwright schreef: > thanks for clearing that up & for all the info! I love the stable lenny > release, I dread upgrading the kernel, mainly because of the NVIDIA driver.. > not sure why, but it seems that every time I changed the kernel, besides X not > working, it also made my network stop... but that's another story. For now I > guess I'll just wait for the release! In squeeze, they shipped a dkms-version of the nvidia drivers, and it actually works. I've updated my kernel quite a few times and didn't had to do any 'm-a a-i nvidia'. Does your network card also require some alternative driver? Sjoerd
From: Paul Cartwright on 21 Jul 2010 05:20
On Wed July 21 2010, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > In squeeze, they shipped a dkms-version of the nvidia drivers, and it > actually works. I've updated my kernel quite a few times and didn't had > to do any 'm-a a-i nvidia'. > Does your network card also require some alternative driver? > well, not alternate driver, just nvidia, as in the NOT-FREE driver. I have been using sgfxi to install my drivers, the last few upgrades. But there hasn't been an upgrade in a while, at least I don't remember one messing up my video setup. But that is good to know, thanks! Do you run gnome or KDE? just curious, in squeeze is KDE changed to KDE4 ? my wife still runs KDE3 and it would be a real shock for her to have to switch to KDE4.. I run gnome myself. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201007210513.10230.debian(a)pcartwright.com |