Re: About Emdebian Grip upgrading

Domingo Lopez <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.embedded
Message-ID <CABvSro0CY7P6xEmtUBBpiqctR93vmvC_RYxBCkDms1Q7KmSJgQ@mail.gmail.com>
Thanks again, Neil...


On Tue, 2 Oct 2012 16:12:31 +0200
> Domingo Lopez <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > what is the safest way of upgrading an Emdebian Grip system (for example
> > from lenny to squeeze) assuming that the system has already been heavily
> > customized?
>
> As on IRC, it's a standard Debian system, it will upgrade as a standard
> Debian system would upgrade with the same customisations.
>
> Change the apt sources to point at the upgrade release.
>
> apt-get update
> apt-get upgrade
> apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> Check the output of the upgrade commands.
>
> Customisations in /etc/ will be retained just as in Debian.
>
> If you've changed stuff in /usr then those changes will be lost.
>
> --
>
>
> Neil Williams
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> http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
>
>


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