[H-SASIG] Upgrade from Lenny

[TomasM at tomasm.tk]

Hi all,

Last meeting, I volunteered to help out with migrating excalibur from lenny to 
debian-testing.  After looking into it, I have to advise against it at this 
stage.  However, upgrading to stable (squeeze) turns out to be fairly 
straightforward.

As I discussed Russell, going lenny->squeeze->wheezy looks to be a better idea 
than a direct upgrade to testing, as the intermediate dist-upgrade should 
handle a lot of potential breakage and system changes.  As a bonus, if wheezy 
ends up staying 'almost ready' longer again than expected, staying with 
current stable for a couple of months looks to be a workable and pretty 
painless option.

AFAICT everything[1] worked perfectly after trying it out on an image w/ 
Russell's rdiff.  What I did was run this[2] a few times and check if anything 
broke.  (I later realised the update starts cron and the backup process if I 
don't pay attention - apologies for any resulting list spam.)

I'll be busy for the next several days, and have to leave things here for now.  
Hopes this helps anyone else planning to look at this

Cheers
- Tomas


NB I don't have access to trac or VCS, and I'm not really sure if I followed 
process.


[1] apache and mail, with no obvious errors from anything else
[2] http://tomasm.tk/humbug/do-the-update.sh