Debian 12 “Bookworm” Enters Its Soft Freeze

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-12-Soft-Freeze

by Decabytes • 3 years ago

16 9 3 years ago

water554• 3 years ago

Debían is legit. Bounced around for years. Debian is the best.

kazinator3• 3 years ago

I have a /.git/ directory in the root of a Debian 11 server. Every change under /etc is carefully versioned. My plan when upgrading to 12 is to roll back all the changes, turn the upgraded config into a new commit, then rebase my config changes one by one. I anticipate that I will still be burned, but maybe less than before.

alsobrsp• 3 years ago

I use etckeeper for this, automatic daily commits if something changes, also does pre and post apt commits.

I use that for potential personal foot shots. Upgrades are almost always straight forward, just read the notes. I have been upgrading in place 6-12 systems since at least 2002.

jonas-w2• 3 years ago

Do you add every single file under /etc to that repository, or just selected ones or what is your workflow?

kazinator3• 3 years ago

Yes, everything. The danger is that you won't notice that you changed something; if a file is not under git and you touch it, you don't know.

(I have extensive experience with the Quilt patch management system; countless times I forgot a "quilt add" before changing something. You will not remember.)

Stuff outside of /etc I've added on a case by case basis. I have customized some code in the Roundcube webmail app, so I put it that installation under git.

Now there is some garbage software that puts changing state under /etc. Can you believe it? Snap is like this, and I installed that in order to get Certbot (the SSL cert manager). So I ended up with spurious changes in these changing state files. Ugh.

chrisbolt• 3 years ago

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34849902

x11vnc4life• 3 years ago

Love that they added cloud-init support for their cloud images

Debian 12 “Bookworm” Enters Its Soft Freeze

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