[aklug] Re: Ubuntu in skin upgrade

From: Greg Madden <gomadtroll@gci.net>
Date: Sat Dec 08 2012 - 12:36:34 AKST

On Saturday 08 December 2012 10:38:05 you wrote:
> Recently I had an opportunity to do an in skin upgrade from Ubuntu
> 10.04 to 12.04.
>
> This upgrade took about 2 hours and included the downloading of all
> the packages.
>
> My preparation for this task was to ensure that all the updates from
> the 10.04 were applied and to back up critical configuration files in
> order to restore services if the upgrade failed.
>
> I'm happy to say that it went scarily well. In all my years of doing
> these sorts of upgrades, I normally deploy to a new box, get all my
> testing done then migrate.
>
> In this particular case, we didn't have other hardware to migrate to,
> so were stuck with an in skin upgrade.
>
> It is important to note that there were minimal things running on
> this server:
>
> - Samba
> - Webserver (PHP)
> - SSH
> - MySQL
>
> So there wasn't a whole lot of risk here.
>
> Also, I used the GUI interface from Update Manager to complete this
> task.
>
> It felt wrong, but hey, had to give it a try. :)
>
> It seems likely that other distros would perform similarly, but who
> knows?
>
> Mike B.

If those are consecutive LTS versions I would expect no less. Debian,
slow release cycle..yea, similar to LTS. A very important part of the
slower release is everything is tested including the upgrade to the
next release. I don't know about other distro's either :-)

-- 
Peace,
Greg
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