Upgrading from Beryllium to experimental Boron

hhh · 2023-06-14 17:40:45

BTW, I've been doing some Boron live-builds, it's looking pretty good...

https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 85#p127985

DeepDayze · 2023-06-15 16:55:55

Updated my lappy to boron following the steps and no major issues at all.

dbvolvox · 2023-07-16 10:27:37

After success with my backup laptop I have now done my working laptop. One issue, the time was wrong so added systemd-timesyncd which was a tip from the Lithium to Beryllium upgrade.

JasonMehmel · 2024-03-14 17:20:42

This might be the best place to ask... I've got 2 source related questions.

Question 1)

I installed Beryllium via a USB, so I've got these in my sources.list:

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 11 _Beryllium_ - Snapshot amd64 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20220714-13:33]/ bullseye contrib main non-free

Should I delete or remove them before upgrading to Boron? They're commented out, but perhaps still remove them to avoid confusion?

And Question 2)

When editing my sources, should I also rename the .list files that refer to bunsen and debian bullseye backports?

Or am I just changing the bunsen.list and sources.list contents?

Here are the related files on my system:
/etc/apt/
sources.list

/etc/apt/sources.list.d/
bunsen-bullseye-backports.list
bunsen.list
debian-bullseye-backports.list

(below are the following other sources I've added, mostly for work stuff)
google-chrome.list
nodesource.list
signal-xenial.list
skype-stable.list
slack.list
sublime-text.list
teams.list
toptracker.list
vscode.list
winehq-bullseye.sources

johnraff · 2024-03-15 00:16:37

JasonMehmel wrote:

This might be the best place to ask... I've got 2 source related questions.
Question 1)
I installed Beryllium via a USB, so I've got these in my sources.list:
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 11 _Beryllium_ - Snapshot amd64 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20220714-13:33]/ bullseye contrib main non-free
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 11 _Beryllium_ - Snapshot amd64 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20220714-13:33]/ bullseye contrib main non-free
Should I delete or remove them before upgrading to Boron? They're commented out, but perhaps still remove them to avoid confusion?

It doesn't matter - might as well delete them.

And Question 2)
When editing my sources, should I also rename the .list files that refer to bunsen and debian bullseye backports?
Or am I just changing the bunsen.list and sources.list contents?

That doesn't matter either. Any file named *.list inside /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ will be used by apt.

JasonMehmel · 2024-03-20 07:14:01

Thank you! I think I'll rename them from

bunsen-bullseye-backports.list
bunsen.list
debian-bullseye-backports.list

to

bunsen-bookworm-backports.list
bunsen.list
debian-bookworm-backports.list

Just so I'm not confused AFTER the upgrade, or many months from now trying to investigate something else and coming across them!

(But I will also edit the deb lines inside the .list files, just in case anyone was worried!)

johnraff · 2024-03-20 07:53:55

...many months from now...

JasonMehmel · 2024-03-21 17:31:02

Upgrade went pretty well! I took the careful route, and no major hiccups along the way!

Toyed with some settings, brought some back to how I was living in Beryllium, but keeping others. A lot of the new additions are either exciting or already what I would have chosen!

A few questions, though:

1) Do I need to update or redo my bunsen-keyring at all, or is that part of the upgrade process?

2) apt cache filled up about 6 GB. (One of which was a game, 0AD, that I didn't have installed before the upgrade, though I had tried it out a while ago. Is that normal? I made sure I had about 12 GB free before upgrading, but I was surprised at how big this was.

I've since cleaned it, but if users like me tend to fill up their hard drives, knowing that there might be a sizeable cache to then clean would be useful!

johnraff · 2024-03-22 04:15:18

JasonMehmel wrote:

1) Do I need to update or redo my bunsen-keyring at all, or is that part of the upgrade process?

That should have been taken care of by the usual package upgrades.

2) apt cache filled up about 6 GB. (One of which was a game, 0AD, that I didn't have installed before the upgrade, though I had tried it out a while ago. Is that normal? I made sure I had about 12 GB free before upgrading, but I was surprised at how big this was.
I've since cleaned it, but if users like me tend to fill up their hard drives, knowing that there might be a sizeable cache to then clean would be useful!

The cache might have been filling up already? Mine's ~7GB atm. If the space is no problem, it will save unnecessary downloads if for some reason you're running install and uninstall of a certain package repeatedly. Anyway, run 'sudo apt autoclean' or 'sudo apt clean' to clear it out (see 'man apt-get').

JasonMehmel · 2024-03-22 17:33:31

That's a good point; I can't verify how big the cache was BEFORE the install.

My reasoning was: I started the upgrade with about 12 GB free, ended it with 6 GB, and after cleaning the cache, was back to 12 (ish) GB.

I'd be surprised if the upgrade added that much space, but not impossible! With the various things I've got installed, (and not having done detailed logs of space consumed beforehand) it'll be hard to know for sure.

johnraff · 2024-03-23 04:23:33

Any time you upgrade a lot of packages, all the downloaded deb files are going to end up in the apt cache. If you're short of space they need to be cleared out - maybe we should add a note about that in the upgrade guide.

JasonMehmel · 2024-03-23 05:19:26

I think that would be a good idea!

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