Curt <cu...@free.fr> wrote: > On 2018-03-01, deloptes <delop...@gmail.com> wrote: >> David Christensen wrote:
>>> So, now I do the latter. This is facilitated by, and integrated >>> into, my backup/ restore, archive, and imaging processes. I have >>> confidence in the results. >> >> I have been updating regularly wheezy -> jessie -> stretch >> >> I never experienced any problem > Me neither and what he posits as another data point in support of his > opinion, isn't. Debian in-place upgrades just work. My personal systems have been upgraded and never reinstalled, even through several hardware up- and sidegrades, since 1999. I also am very brave and run Unstable with daily upgrades, so the in-place-upgrade routine is excercised very very often on those systems. And the systems I am responsible for at work are also mostly upgraded and not reinstalled. Of course the smoothness of the upgrade depends on the amount of packages installed, the configuration of the packages and the system as a whole. In my experience things like upgrading Apache with many VHosts can be quite painful and labor intensive if you don't use a templating system. The change from Apache2.2 in Wheezy to Apache2.4 in Jessie is such a case. Also if you bastardized the installation before and went against the way the distribution does something, your experience during the upgrade will be worse. But this is true for every Linux distribution, not Debian alone. So no, an in-place-upgrade is definately *not* an excercise in futility. Only if you did something very wrong before this will be your impression. Grüße, Sven -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.
