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can't directly upgrade from 22.04 lts to 24.04 lts, have to go through a non-lts upgrade first
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@sun all of our original CDN-1 nodes are running ubungu 20.04, when I finish replacing them this year it will all be gentoo. pretty stoked tbh
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@graf I like Gentoo
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@graf I would switch to Debian if it were possible to do so, though
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@sun debian is fine but in this setup everything is puppeted by master servers and they all run distcc so upgrades or anything take seconds. maybe a minute and a half to compile a kernel. allows a lot of low power, low cost edge nodes to work together to lift heavier projects. is there anything distributed with debian or ubantoo? i never bothered looking into it
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@mangeurdenuage @sun yeah on a bare bones ryzen 9 mini pc I've got it under 6 minutes but with distcc its crazy fast
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@graf @sun Fastest kernel compile I was able to do with Gentoo was 30 minutes on a core2duo desktop. Most minimal with no memory safety nor any debug options.
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@graf @mangeurdenuage are you doing anything with the kernel to require building from source?
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@sun @mangeurdenuage yes, they're built specifically for KVM hosts so literally everything not required is stripped. on boot they run about 30-32MB ram usage
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@graf @mangeurdenuage nice.
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@PalePimp I just upgraded twice and everything went fine
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@sun No, you don't need to, you can jump from any version to literally any version using apt dist-upgrade if you replace the repositories with the one of the version you want to jump into.
What happens at times is that you get a circular conflict where package A depends on B and vice versa.
Use apt to force install A and B and then reinstall A or do another dist-upgrade and it generally works fine.
I have been doing this for years and it always works fine. Ubuntu is based on debian dist-upgrade behaves the same.
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@sun If you can do that and it worked that's fine.
In my case I tried to do the upgrade path recently from 18.04 and 16.04 to 20.04 and it failed miserably, so I said: "Fuck it, this is a debian distro" and jumped to 22.04 directly. No issues.
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@PalePimp incidentally, I did release upgrades all the way from an ubuntu 7.04 to 20.04 once successfully!
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@sun I liked Ubuntu, I really did, they played a pivotal part back in the day for Linux to gain wider acceptance, but since they started doing shit with the updates and the snaps... Debian for servers all the way.
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@PalePimp I wish I had Debian on this server, it failed for some reason and went with Ubuntu again.