<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 6:59 AM, Andrew Latham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lathama@gmail.com">lathama@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">> Thanks Dave. Sounds like a man who's not had his hand soaking in ivory<br>> liquid and been through the toils and tortures of various upgrades over the<br>> years. Very insightful though. Goof thing this discussion ensued as I am<br>
> learning a lot about what to be wary of not least of all, the truth about<br>> "testing", RC and stable distribution. Which is why, despite eating humble<br>> pie re: the RC vs Stable discussion, I was going to wait till the status on<br>
> RC changes to "stable" and maybe even help out a bit in the upgrade path<br>> testing. Good thing is that I don't necessarily need to muck around with the<br>> Production machines at the moment as all development is being done in the<br>
> Lab, and some of that is in VMs, so I have the power of snapshots with me<br>> along with physical access to machines should anything break badly. The<br>> production machines are sitting 10,000 miles away so the best I have is<br>
> console access to them.<br>><br>> Speaking of in-place upgrades, does adding the Squeeze repo. in the<br>> sources.lst conf and running 'aptitude safe-upgrade/full-upgrade'<br>> automaticaly begins the upgrade or is there more to it? You mentioned about<br>
> backing up configs and data etc so it doesn't sound like it's that simple<br>> eh?<br></div>> --<br><br>pretty easy... Lenny to Squeeze (5.0 to 6.0 for the mortals out there..)<br><br>1. aptitude update<br>
2. aptitude upgrade<br>3. aptitude clean<br>4. sed -i 's/lenny/squeez/g' /etc/apt/sources.list<br>5. aptitude update<br>6. aptitude install apt dpkg aptitude<br>7. aptitude full-upgrade<br>8. aptitude clean<br>9. init 6<br>
10. have a lovely beverage and relax... :)<br></blockquote>
<div><font color="#000099" face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">1. A cold-stone creamery hot chocolate satchet (70 cal)</font></div>
<div><font color="#000099" face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">2. 2 tbps of fat free half-and half</font></div>
<div><font color="#000099" face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">3. 1 tbsp of instant coffee</font></div>
<div><font color="#000099" face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">4. 1.5 packet of splenda</font></div>
<div><font color="#000099" face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">5. Hot water</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000099" face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">makes an amazingly cozy low-cal beverage esp. when it's snowing outside like it is in NYC right now :)</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000099" face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Thanks for that How-To Andrew. Appreciate it. Will have this going on, on one of the VMs with Lenny and keep up with both side by side to see if both are equally stable before I put one of them in production.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000099" face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Cheers,</font></div>
<div><font color="#000099" face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">\R</font></div></div></div>