[plug] Question about upgrading from Debian 4.0 to 5.0

[Bret Busby]

On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Daniel Pittman wrote:

> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:25:21 +1000
> From: Daniel Pittman <daniel at rimspace.net>
> Reply-To: plug at plug.org.au
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Question about upgrading from Debian 4.0 to 5.0
> 
> Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> writes:
>
>> I am thinking about upgrading my Debian installation, from 4.0 to Debian
>> 5.0, on this system. On my laptop, I had done a clean installation of Debian
>> 5.0.
>>
>> To do the upgrade, I am looking at doing it by just changing the URL's in
>> the sources.list file, from etch to lenny, and then doing an apt-get update
>> followed by apt-get dist-upgrade.
>
> Don't do that.
>
>> Has anyone else done it this way, and, has it caused (or, is it likely to
>> cause) any problems?
>
> Yes.  You might get lucky, but it *HAS* caused some problems for some people.
>
> What you should do, instead, is read the Debian release notes.
>
> They include detailed instructions on how to perform the upgrade that work
> around any issues found to date, as well as ensuring that you are aware of
> anything specific you should check on the way.
>
>

It looks like it is simply too complicated, to do the upgrade.

Thanks anyway.

--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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