On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 01:21:51AM +0200, 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.
>
> 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

Jessie is "archived" and available at archive.devuan.org, i.e. you
should use:

deb http://archive.devuan.org/merged jessie main

only that one; there are no jessie-updates or jessie-security.

The subsequent releases are at deb.devuan.org and include *-updates
and *-security. as well as having *-backports and *-proposed-updates
(although mostly empty I think)

See also https://www.devuan.org/os/packages for details.

Ralph

>
> or have things moved on since that documentation was written, and I should be
> pointing the machine elsewhere now?
>
> Those URLs look very different from what I'm familiar with on Beowulf and
> Chimaera systems.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Antony.
>
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