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Autor: onefang
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A: dng
Asunto: Re: [DNG] Upgrading a very old Debian system
On 2022-10-17 01:21:51, Antony Stone wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I've been given the task of upgrading a very old Debian system - currently
> running 7.11 Wheezy - and it's going to get upgraded to Devuan.
>
> I've always upgraded De{bi,vu}an systems from one release to the next without
> skipping, so I plan to go Wheezy --> Devuan Jessie --> Ascii --> Beowulf -->
> Chimaera.


Devuan Jessie has been archived, but likely so has Debian Jessie. Wheezy
--> Debian Jessie --> Devuan Ascii --> Beowulf may work better, or not.

Make backups first.

> My question is "are the repositories documented at
> https://www.devuan.org/os/announce/stable-jessie-announce-052517 still valid
> for performing an online upgrade?"
>
> ie: should I change sources.list to contain
>
> deb http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged jessie          main
> deb http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged jessie-updates  main
> deb http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged jessie-security main

>
> or have things moved on since that documentation was written, and I should be
> pointing the machine elsewhere now?


Use http://deb.devuan.org/merged

> Those URLs look very different from what I'm familiar with on Beowulf and
> Chimaera systems.


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