[SAC] [SECURITY] [DSA 2360-1] Two month advance notification for upcoming end-of-life for Debian oldstable (lenny)

[Markus Neteler]

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Markus N wrote:
>> > Is there anything special to consider for the VMs?
>
> usually the 'dist-upgrade' process is pretty
> straight forward as long as the recipe is followed:
>  http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/
>
> I've done the same upgrade remotely before, nothing
> much to report..

Same here on one of my own servers, just wanted to be
sure for the virtual machines.

> Martin S wrote:
>> I'm already in preparation of such upgrade for
>> the Wiki VM and given the fact that these VM's
>> are running a regular distro kernel I don't
>> expect any major trouble.
>
> I'm happy to take on the adhoc VM as a guinea pig.
> AFAIK the only issue there may be the custom
> installed sphinx. The new debian ships a slightly
> newer version of that that so I think it is mostly
> a question of dealing with any left over cruft.

OK, so I would suggest to do
- first wiki VM and adhoc
- then projects VM
- then the rest (lists is still to be migrated)

Markus