[SAC] [SECURITY] [DSA 2360-1] Two month advance notification for upcoming end-of-life for Debian oldstable (lenny)

Markus N wrote:

> Is there anything special to consider for the
> VMs?

usually the 'dist-upgrade' process is pretty
straight forward as long as the recipe is followed:
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/

I've done the same upgrade remotely before, nothing
much to report..

Martin S wrote:

I'm already in preparation of such upgrade for
the Wiki VM and given the fact that these VM's
are running a regular distro kernel I don't
expect any major trouble.

I'm happy to take on the adhoc VM as a guinea pig.
AFAIK the only issue there may be the custom
installed sphinx. The new debian ships a slightly
newer version of that that so I think it is mostly
a question of dealing with any left over cruft.

Hamish

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Hamish <hamish_b@yahoo.com> wrote:

Markus N wrote:

> Is there anything special to consider for the VMs?

usually the 'dist-upgrade' process is pretty
straight forward as long as the recipe is followed:
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/

I've done the same upgrade remotely before, nothing
much to report..

Same here on one of my own servers, just wanted to be
sure for the virtual machines.

Martin S wrote:

I'm already in preparation of such upgrade for
the Wiki VM and given the fact that these VM's
are running a regular distro kernel I don't
expect any major trouble.

I'm happy to take on the adhoc VM as a guinea pig.
AFAIK the only issue there may be the custom
installed sphinx. The new debian ships a slightly
newer version of that that so I think it is mostly
a question of dealing with any left over cruft.

OK, so I would suggest to do
- first wiki VM and adhoc
- then projects VM
- then the rest (lists is still to be migrated)

Markus

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 11:34:03AM +0100, Markus Neteler wrote:

OK, so I would suggest to do
- first wiki VM and adhoc

Ok, herewith I'm announcing approx. 30 minutes of planned downtime for
the Wiki this Sunday afternoon (for those who are 'feeling' UTC time).
I can't predict when exactly this will be but will post a short
announcement before downtime starts.

Cheers,
  Martin.
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On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 12:25:53PM +0100, Martin Spott wrote:

Ok, herewith I'm announcing approx. 30 minutes of planned downtime for
the Wiki this Sunday afternoon (for those who are 'feeling' UTC time).
I can't predict when exactly this will be but will post a short
announcement before downtime starts.

Voila,
  Martin.
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On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 11:25:31PM -0800, Hamish wrote:

usually the 'dist-upgrade' process is pretty
straight forward as long as the recipe is followed:
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/

Oh my, way too much to read :wink:

  Martin.
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On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Martin Spott <Martin.Spott@mgras.net> wrote:

On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 11:25:31PM -0800, Hamish wrote:

usually the 'dist-upgrade' process is pretty
straight forward as long as the recipe is followed:
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/

Oh my, way too much to read :wink:

Try this:

http://www.howtoforge.com/upgrade-debian-lenny-to-squeeze-in-a-few-simple-steps
(I used it successfully)

cheers
Markus

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 07:24:53PM +0100, Markus Neteler wrote:

Try this:

Heh, I already did a couple of dist-upgrades to Squeeze, including some
without access to the console, therefore I'm slightly confident that I
know what I'm looking at :wink:

Cheers,
  Martin.
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System upgrade over, start chasing bugs :slight_smile:

  Martin.
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Hamish wrote:

> usually the 'dist-upgrade' process is pretty
> straight forward as long as the recipe is followed:
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/

Martin S:

Oh my, way too much to read :wink:

sorry I posted the wrong link! this is the one to
look at,

http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/

specifically "4. Upgrades from Debian 5.0 (lenny)"
and "5. Issues to be aware of for squeeze"

e.g. have a peek at "4.5. Possible issues during upgrade"
and "5.2. LDAP support"

just like painting the house it's all about the
prep work :slight_smile:

thanks,
Hamish

ps- http://wiki.osgeo.org [[Category:Portugal]] ?

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 12:12:12PM -0800, Hamish wrote:

e.g. have a peek at "4.5. Possible issues during upgrade"
and "5.2. LDAP support"

Without looking at this document I know that LDAP support in Squeeze is
a lot more mature than in any Debian release before. I was used to
maintain PAM auth files by hand, but this isn't necessary any more with
Squeeze.

Cheers,
  Martin.
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