Hi,
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 07:32:02AM +0530, Didar Hussain wrote:
>
> Thanks to all the people who responded. But, I'm still undecided
> whether "dist-upgrade"ing is really safe!
You are right.
> I'm a recent RedHat
> refugee, so never have tried Debian upgrade. The servers in
> question are production systems of corporate clients of mine.
>
> I guess I will have to have a go at it myself. If people can
> upgrade from RedHat 8.0 to Fedora Core1 using "apt-get" then
> it should no be a problem on Debian at all.
Sigh. Overconfidence may be dangerous.
> Thanks again, everyone. Wish me luck :)
As Release note shall say, blindly doing "apt-get dist-upgrade" for
production system shall be a bad idea. (I know it works in most cases
with small amount of packages installed.) At lest it was the case for
Potato --> Woody transition.
safe --> No.
can --> Yes.
should --> Maybe. But cautions needed.
I would rather use dselect (or maybe aptitude).
I have some Potato --> Woody transition documented in my Debian
Reference. If you read thesedocs, you will be able to handle breakage
without waiting for official release note.
Osamu
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