lenny "testing to stable"

nima0102 · 06-01-2009, 03:26 PM

Hi
I want to upgrade lenny testing to lenny stable,May this upgrade risk my enterprise server ??
thanks for any help or guidance

pljvaldez · 06-01-2009, 03:31 PM

If your sources.list file already says "lenny" then you're safe and you've already made the change (assuming you've been doing any security updates).

If your sources.list says "testing" and you've been doing updates, you can't go back to stable.

If your sources.list says "testing" but you haven't done any updates since Lenny became stable, you should be able to just change "testing" to "lenny" and then do an upgrade.

Upgrades are always a risk to production environments. Make sure you have a good backup handy before you start.

rweaver · 06-01-2009, 03:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nima0102

Hi
I want to upgrade lenny testing to lenny stable,May this upgrade risk my enterprise server ??
thanks for any help or guidance

Could you paste a copy of your /etc/apt/sources.list ?

In all likelihood if you specified lenny directly and have been updating software, you ARE running lenny stable.

If you specified testing and have been updating, you're not running lenny anymore you're running squeeze (if memory serves me) and attempting to downgrade from squeeze to lenny would probably not be a pleasant experience.

IMO you really shouldn't use the non-distribution specific monikers in a production environment.

nima0102 · 06-02-2009, 04:04 AM

thanks for your reply

Quote:

Originally Posted by rweaver

Could you paste a copy of your /etc/apt/sources.list ?

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free

dear pljvaldez,is there anyway to find that any update have been done??
Does not apt have any history ??
I think,history is necessary for apt,Do not you think? if so suggest to developer of apt

thanks for any guide or instruction

pljvaldez · 06-02-2009, 11:39 AM

You can try looking at /var/log/dpkg.log and see if there has been any activity since February 14, 2009 (when lenny was released as stable). If there has, you're probably stuck and have to use squeeze (current testing).

jdkaye · 06-02-2009, 12:23 PM

Hi Nima,
Updates are not done automatically (unless you've configured an event that does it yourself). If you have not executed something like

Code:

sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude safe-upgrade

then there haven't been any updates. Do you recall executing such a command in the last 4 months?
cheers,
jdk

nima0102 · 06-02-2009, 01:09 PM

thanks for your attention

Quote:

Originally Posted by jdkaye

Hi Nima,
UDo you recall executing such a command in the last 4 months?
jdk

unfortunately I was not admin for this server,because I remember executed commands

if I change source.list to lenny and update repository package and after that I run upgrade,Is determined which packages will be updated or upgraded ?? Is prompt me for accept that??

thanks for any help or instruction

jdkaye · 06-02-2009, 01:55 PM

Yes, if you use aptitude it will always tell you want it is going to do and ask if you agree before doing it. If there are dependency problems, aptitude will alert you and even offer solutions. I would avoid using a gui for updating/ugrading packages. You get much more information using the CLI and aptitude.
cheers,
jdk

rweaver · 06-02-2009, 04:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nima0102

thanks for your reply

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free

dear pljvaldez,is there anyway to find that any update have been done??
Does not apt have any history ??
I think,history is necessary for apt,Do not you think? if so suggest to developer of apt

thanks for any guide or instruction

If you didn't have a broken system and you updated with that sources list you may now.

Code:

# Main Debian Mirror
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free

# Security Updates Mirror
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free

What you want is something like this.

You're actually referencing two different distributions... squeeze and lenny.

They should both specify lenny or both specify testing/stable/unstable. They should never reference different versions.

wearetheborg · 02-13-2010, 07:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rweaver

Code:

# Main Debian Mirror
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free

# Security Updates Mirror
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free

What you want is something like this.

You're actually referencing two different distributions... squeeze and lenny.

They should both specify lenny or both specify testing/stable/unstable. They should never reference different versions.

If I want to install squeeze now, and have my source list file as

Code:

# Main Debian Mirror
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free

# Security Updates Mirror
deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free

Then, when squeeze becomes stable, will I have to do any changes ?

AlucardZero · 02-13-2010, 08:56 PM