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On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:31:11 +0100 Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Neil Williams wrote: > > > > However, what is the point of such a process? Just to while away the > > long summer evenings? > > Especially when testing the Lenny -> Squeeze upgrade might even be > helpful around now and doesn't require abusing archive.debian.org Lenny is still available, what's moved to archive.d.o is Etch. The Etch to Lenny testing is as complete as it's ever going to get. Etch to Squeeze is not directly supported (or tested) because oldstable is always empty before testing can be frozen to become the new stable. > Leave "archive" for the benefit of the poor sod who has just inherits a > site full of ancient Debian servers and needs to do that upgrade path > for real to save his sanity. If the servers are running, the Etch packages are only necessary if the servers haven't been updated in ages, causing a need to update to the final point update of Etch before changing the sources over to Lenny - or if the server admin has been a file-space junkie and set apt/aptitude to constantly clean out the apt cache. Still allows a piecemeal update, you don't have to do dist-upgrade. Often best to upgrade the core stuff first, make sure the system is still sane and then do the dist-upgrade. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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