my system is or was squeeze testing, installed in sept. 2010,
the last 'aptitude upgrade' was 2 months ago.
I will give it a try, alex
Am 2011-02-24 00:18, schrieb Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.:
On Wednesday 23 February 2011 15:26:12 Alex Declent wrote:
is it so simple
aptitude update
aptitude upgrade
and squeeze/sid becomes stable?
I'm assuming you have a system that claims to be "Debian squeeze/sid" and you
want to make it be running "Debian Squeeze (6.0)". (If that's not what you
mean, and you actually have a mixed system, I'll get to that later.)
The only time Debian claim(ed) to be squeeze/sid was when you were running
squeeze while it was testing.
Before you do an update (to save bandwidth) and before you do an upgrade or
full-upgrade you need to make sure you sources.list is correct. If you want
testing -- which will claim to be "wheezy/sid" by now -- use "testing". If
you want to run Debian Squeeze, which is a stable release now -- use
"squeeze".
After that you can _probably_ just do an update, upgrade, full-upgrade,
reboot. That said, I don't know how old your "oldtesting" packages are.
You'll want to at least skim the release notes. Your upgrade may include
none, some, or all of the issues there and maybe even some new ones. It is
relatively easy to test Lenny -> Squeeze upgrades, since the packages in Lenny
are mostly fixed. Each Squeeze (testing) -> Squeeze (stable) upgrade is
different, depending on when the last time you updated your testing.
---
If you are running a mixed squeeze / sid system, you are probably well served
by adding wheezy / testing in there to ease some of the transitions, if you
want to stay there. Moving such an installed to "just" squeeze is tricky.
Downgrades of installed packages are impossible, so each package you've pulled
from sid is a potential stumbling block. First remove sid / unstable from
your sources.list. Then, perform the update, upgrade, full-upgrade dance.
Now *purge* every package where the installed version is not the stable
version (aptitude purge '~S~i!~A^stable$'). If that causes dependency
problems or removes essential packages or just plain doesn't work, you'll have
to reinstall; downgrading is not always possible.
---
oldstable, stable, testing, unstable, experimental, any active codenames and
the associated -updates and -proposed-updates repositories are all on the same
mirror set.
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