Matthew's Journal

Well, I upgraded ming my house server to debian stable this evening; the aim being to get the disruption over with before atreic gets back. Mostly, things went smoothly, which isn't bad given this machine hasn't been re-installed from scratch since about 1998. It needs more disk desperately, though.

Annoyances include the loss of disorder (I'll build a new one, I guess), the new apache configuration not checking what modules might actually be necessary, and the fact that my X setup is probably utterly doomed - fvwm and xplanet are not backwards-compatibly changed :(

Before I upgrade rapun, I have to note that the gnus upgrade is going to break everyone's gnus configuration (mine included).

Finally, ess and xemacs21-mule won't configure...

So, as long as I can sort my X config before the xserver next dies, it should all be well...

I should note that I edited apt.conf to add:
APT::Cache-Limit "10000000";

and ran aptitude with the PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 environment variable.

Everything else was pretty much as per the docs.

ETA: ess was due to me still having emacs19 installed
More annoying is that ntp and inn both have changed their config-file sufficiently that things don't work as before unless you change your config file. The upgrade process should tell you this, IMAO