Subj : Re: SSH on BBSes
To   : Spectre
From : Arelor
Date : Thu Apr 21 2022 09:15:06

  Re: Re: SSH on BBSes
  By: Spectre to boraxman on Thu Apr 21 2022 10:26 pm

 >  bo> To clarify, by "upgrade", it was not an format/reinstall, or installing
 >  bo> new OS over the old one.  It was an actual upgrade, an update of Debian
 >  bo> from one version to the next.
 > 
 > I reckon you're damned lucky then. I've always had zero joy trying to upgrad
 > any distro.  I got so used to stuff breaking at any kind of update, I refuse
 > to make any these days, and if I have to have some kind of upgrade for some
 > specific software I'll start from scratch.  Even my current server install i
 > fscked.  It won't upgrade, there's stuff thats broken from that last attempt
 > I can't run fail2ban any more...
 > 
 > Spec
 > 
 > 
 > *** THE READER V4.50 [freeware]

I think big Linux distributions nowadays upgrade without many issues. It is
when you are using custom software which has not been tested in the new version
of the distribution when things get hairy.

Last upgrade which went wrong for me was a Slackware one in which one of the
filesystems ran out of space :-)

Even OpenBSD, which had a VERY manual upgrade path, usually works without
issues. Nowadays it can be upgraded automatically (boring) but still does not
break.

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