8 Oct
2012
8 Oct
'12
2:25 p.m.
Hi Neil, Jan,
On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 03:17:40PM +0100, jan(a)henkins.za.net 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.
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.
sources.lst for that would be:
deb http://apt-cacher.lon.bitfolk.com/debian/archive.debian.org/debian/ lenny main
(note no updates or volatile lines for this one)
So I would have thought that would allow a dist-upgrade to lenny and
then from there follow release notes to dist-upgrade to squeeze.
Disk snapshots are always a good idea before any major upgrade of
course..
Cheers,
Andy
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