On 9/6/19 9:05 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 09:00:08AM -0400, fsmithred via Dng wrote:
>> On 9/6/19 8:33 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>>> I've got buster on a partition I never use and was thinking of deleting.
>>> I could try crossgrading to beowulf before I delete it.
>>> Would that help? It would not likely get any actual usage to discover
>>> problems beyond the actual crossgrade itself.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, please. And maybe tee the output to a log file in case you get
>> something "interesting".
>
> OK. But I should maybe use the script command.
> Are there instructions already? Or is it the usual change the
> apt-sources, update, and upgrade?
> and how should I point to the beowulf repositories? I've noticed
> devuan repositories in different locations before, and I'm not entirely
> sure the ones I'm using on my pure-devuan beowulf are the
> current official ones.
>

I've upgraded Refracta-9 (ascii, xfce, without metapackages) with the
follwing:

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf main
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf-security main

apt update
apt-get dist-upgrade
reboot

Notes:
- I have linux-image-amd64 installed, so I got the new kernel
automatically. Make sure you get 4.19-whatever.
- There's no beowulf-updates or beowulf-backports yet. Leave those lines
commented out if you have them.
- I used "apt" to update for less typing; I used "apt-get" out of habit.
If you get stuck with conficts, try 'aptitude -s full-upgrade' to see if
it offers a better solution. You could also do a plain upgrade before the
dist-upgrade, but it may not be necessary.
- I already know that I contradicted myself, thanks. (In case someone
wanted to point out that linux-image-amd64 is a metapackage.)


fsmithred