IT/Software/Upgrading Between Versions: Difference between revisions

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Revision as of 08:40, 17 December 2020

Though you can upgrade every 6 months there is often little reason to do this in a production environment.

Every two years a LTS(Long Term Support) release comes out.

Common Thoughts

We generally try to tweak a server as little as possible.
- Staying in line with common practice help us get help when needed.
As you upgrade make notes of what config files have changed.
- Choose the Package Maintainer's version.
  - New features have likely been added.
- It usually keeps a copy of the old one.

sudo do-release-upgrade -c

The c is obviously for check

sudo do-release-upgrade

This normally only works after the point release is out.

You can force it sooner with the -d flag at the end

sudo do-release-upgrade -d

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 *It does get point releases and kernel upgrades.
 *Most software can be brought to a current version with a ppa
+Common Thoughts
+* We generally try to tweak a server as little as possible.
+** Staying in line with common practice help us get help when needed.
+* As you upgrade make notes of what config files have changed.
+** Choose the Package Maintainer's version.
+*** New features have likely been added.
+** It usually keeps a copy of the old one.
+*
 ==Check==