Hello Felix, thank you for your roadmap layout for solving my problem in a smart way.
Am 27.03.2022 um 00:15 schrieb Felix Miata: > I find online upgrades to be easier than all the reconfiguration necessary to > reach my happy state starting from a virgin installation. Yep, i remember the shift from Wheezy to Stretch, i used that method, but never got rid of the feeling, that i might still carry some old misconfig due to not starting fresh. Later, when i went from Stretch to Buster, i used the other mothod, but that turned out to be some other sort of problem, because the filesysem in my (ZFS-) pools did carry UIDs and GID's from the older system, and those failed to match the newer ones... What a mess! ... And there are still residues from it. So i was hoping, that a new, fresh install would at least be consistent to itself, and that i would have to correct the file attributes only once before i would definitely mount the ZFS filesystems. And anyhow, many things, i was doing uptil now, are not going to be prolonged into the future. Several software solutions will have to be replaced by current ones working differently. (Just to give you an example: Currently, i am writing from thunderbird 52.9.1 + enigmail, which will not work in bullseye. But Thunderbird (current) has an unsafe cryptography, which forces me to look for alternatives. This problem alone could turn out to have major implications!) That is why a simple full-upgrade is not going to satisfy my needs anyhow. Maybe, i am going to take both approaches and have 2 resulting root partitions on top of the buster one for the time being, until i feel ready to decide? Once again: I feel honored by your kind explanations, which invite me to think ahead... Very much appreciated! Thank you, DdB PS: Sorry: i messed up recipient and list address, causing unnecessary duplication. :-(
