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Hi,
> I think there is a third option which may have a greater chance of
> success: archive.debian.org.
>=20
> 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
--=20
andyjpb@???
http://www.ashurst.eu.org/
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Subject: Re: [bitfolk] Upgrading from Etch to Lenny
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On 2012-10-08 15:25, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi Neil, Jan,
>
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 03:17:40PM +0100, jan@??? wrote:
>> This is because the Lenny repos does not exist any more upstream (I
>> fell into this trap myself). There are basically two different
>> workflows you can follow:
>
> I think there is a third option which may have a greater chance of
> success: archive.debian.org.
This is something I did not know, thanks for the good news! :-D
> 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.
From the README on the site:
---start---
The following releases are archived on this site:
Archive Releases Directory
Debian buzz, rex, bo, hamm,
slink, potato, woody,
sarge, etch, lenny debian/
Debian Secu
