[asterisk-users] Asterisk on Debian Lenny with timerfd

[Andrew Latham]

> Thanks Dave. Sounds like a man who's not had his hand soaking in ivory
> liquid and been through the toils and tortures of various upgrades over the
> years. Very insightful though. Goof thing this discussion ensued as I am
> learning a lot about what to be wary of not least of all, the truth about
> "testing", RC and stable distribution. Which is why, despite eating humble
> pie re: the RC vs Stable discussion, I was going to wait till the status on
> RC changes to "stable" and maybe even help out a bit in the upgrade path
> testing. Good thing is that I don't necessarily need to muck around with the
> Production machines at the moment as all development is being done in the
> Lab, and some of that is in VMs, so I have the power of snapshots with me
> along with physical access to machines should anything break badly. The
> production machines are sitting 10,000 miles away so the best I have is
> console access to them.
>
> Speaking of in-place upgrades, does adding the Squeeze repo. in the
> sources.lst conf and running 'aptitude safe-upgrade/full-upgrade'
> automaticaly begins the upgrade or is there more to it? You mentioned about
> backing up configs and data etc so it doesn't sound like it's that simple
> eh?
> --

pretty easy... Lenny to Squeeze (5.0 to 6.0 for the mortals out there..)

1. aptitude update
2. aptitude upgrade
3. aptitude clean
4. sed -i 's/lenny/squeez/g' /etc/apt/sources.list
5. aptitude update
6. aptitude install apt dpkg aptitude
7. aptitude full-upgrade
8. aptitude clean
9. init 6
10. have a lovely beverage and relax... :)


~~~ Andrew "lathama" Latham lathama at gmail.com ~~~