On Fri 18 Mar 2016 at 10:22:49 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > On 03/18/2016 01:21 AM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > >On Thu, 2016-03-17 at 19:27 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > >>Debian 6 is obsolete. You're going to want to do a > >>backup-wipe-install-restore cycle on both machines and move to Debian > >>7 > >>(or 8). > > > >Why not do a dist-upgrade? > > 1. The few times I tried, I ran into problems. When I was done, I > had no little confidence in the results. I was not alone in my > experience; upgrade and post-upgrade issues are a common subject on > this list.
>From memory, a lot of the problems are caused by leaving backports and non-Debian stuff to go through the upgrade process instead of cleaning up the system first. Another snag is often the DE stuff in home directories. Because most people preserve their /home across even fresh installs, they're going to hit that problem anyway, fresh or upgrade. And it can be tougher still if you maintain two distributions sharing /home. > I'm currently using manual procedures and home-grown scripts. The > next step up would be a deployment/ management automation tool such > as Puppet: > > https://puppetlabs.com/ I can get a lot of hardware for $3000! Cheers, David.
