Re: [bitfolk] sending (and potentially receiving) email from…

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Author: john lewis
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To: Andy Smith
CC: users, neil7
Old-Topics: Re: [bitfolk] Upgrading from Etch to Lenny
Subject: Re: [bitfolk] sending (and potentially receiving) email from my VPS

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Hi,

> I think there is a third option which may have a greater chance of
> success: archive.debian.org.
>
> End of life releases such as lenny still exist on
> archive.debian.org. I've used it in order to achieve normal package
> installs on older machines I've had to work on. I've never done a
> dist-upgrade against it, but I can't think of any particular reason
> why that shouldn't work.


This works: I recommend it. I used it to update to the latest Etch when
I did my Etch -> Lenny -> Squeeze migration at the point that Squeeze
was released. Note: I used to to upgrade to the latest Etch as that was
no longer in the main archive. At the time Lenny was in the main archive.







Regards,
@ndy

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