[vox-tech] How safe is this upgrade?

[Rod Roark]

Hi All,

An associate of mine has this Debian server in a hosting facility
that's been running for about two years, and would like to do a
dist-upgrade.  Does anyone see any reason that this might screw things
up?  I'm a bit concerned about the large number of changes that will
be applied.

Below are some things that I see when preparing to upgrade.  TIA for
any comments.

Rod

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debian:~# cat /etc/issue
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 \n \l

debian:~# apt-get update
Hit http://linux.mirrors.layeredtech.com stable/main Packages
Hit http://linux.mirrors.layeredtech.com stable/main Release
Hit http://linux.mirrors.layeredtech.com stable/non-free Packages
Hit http://linux.mirrors.layeredtech.com stable/non-free Release
Hit http://linux.mirrors.layeredtech.com stable/contrib Packages
Hit http://linux.mirrors.layeredtech.com stable/contrib Release
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Release
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/contrib Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/contrib Release
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/non-free Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/non-free Release
Reading Package Lists... Done

debian:~# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  apache2-common base-config libgc1 libnewt0.51 libnfsidmap1 netkit-inetd ntp-server python-cheetah python2.3 python2.3-cheetah python2.3-imaging
  xfree86-common
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  apache-common apache2.2-common busybox cpp-4.1 debian-archive-keyring dmidecode fontconfig-config g++-4.1 gcc-4.1 gcc-4.1-base gpgv klibc-utils
  laptop-detect libapache-mod-php4 libapr1 libaprutil1 libbind9-0 libdb4.4 libdevmapper1.02 libdns22 libedit2 libgc1c2 libgnutls13 libgssapi2 libisc11
  libisccc0 libisccfg1 libklibc liblwres9 libmysqlclient15off libnewt0.52 libnfsidmap2 libpcap0.8 libpci2 libpq4 librpcsecgss3 libsasl2-2 libselinux1
  libsepol1 libsigc++-2.0-0c2a libslang2 libsqlite3-0 libssl0.9.8 libssp0 libstdc++6 libstdc++6-4.1-dev libtasn1-3 libvolume-id0 libx11-data libxau6
  libxdmcp6 lsb-base mktemp modconf mysql-client-5.0 mysql-server-5.0 openbsd-inetd openssh-client openssh-server python-central python-minimal
  python-support python2.4-minimal readline-common sysvinit-utils tasksel-data tzdata update-inetd x11-common xbitmaps xcursor-themes
The following packages have been kept back:
  kernel-image-2.6-k7
The following packages will be upgraded:
  adduser apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils apt apt-utils aptitude at base-files base-passwd bash bc bin86 bind9-host binutils bison bsdmainutils
  bsdutils console-common console-data console-tools coreutils cpio cpp cpp-3.3 cron cvs dash dc debconf debconf-i18n debianutils defoma dhcp-client
  dictionaries-common discover1 discover1-data dnsutils doc-debian doc-linux-text dpkg dpkg-dev dselect e2fslibs e2fsprogs enscript exim4 exim4-base
  exim4-config exim4-daemon-light fdutils file findutils finger flex fontconfig ftp g++ g++-3.3 gcc gcc-3.3 gcc-3.3-base gdb gettext-base gnu-efi gnupg
  grep groff-base grub gzip hdparm hostname hotplug iamerican ibritish ifupdown info initrd-tools initscripts iptables iputils-ping ispell klogd less
  libacl1 libapache2-mod-perl2 libapache2-mod-php4 libattr1 libauthen-pam-perl libblkid1 libbz2-1.0 libc6 libc6-dev libcomerr2 libconsole libdb1-compat
  libdb3 libdb4.2 libdb4.3 libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libdiscover1 libevent1 libexpat1 libfontconfig1 libfreetype6 libgcc1 libgcrypt11 libgd2-xpm
  libgdbm3 libgpg-error0 libgpmg1 libhtml-parser-perl libhtml-tagset-perl libhtml-tree-perl libice6 libidn11 libjpeg62 libkrb53 libldap2
  liblocale-gettext-perl liblockfile1 liblzo1 libmagic1 libncurses5 libncursesw5 libnet-daemon-perl libnet-ssleay-perl libnss-db libopencdk8
  libpam-modules libpam-runtime libpam0g libpaper1 libpcre3 libperl5.8 libplrpc-perl libpng12-0 libpopt0 libreadline5 libsasl2 libsm6 libss2 libssl0.9.7
  libstdc++5 libstdc++5-3.3-dev libt1-5 libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl libtext-wrapi18n-perl libtextwrap1 liburi-perl libusb-0.1-4 libuuid1
  libwrap0 libwww-perl libx11-6 libxext6 libxpm4 libzzip-0-12 linux-kernel-headers locales login logrotate lpr lsof m4 mailx make makedev man-db manpages
  manpages-dev mime-support module-init-tools modutils mount mpack mtools mtr-tiny mutt mysql-client mysql-common mysql-server nano ncurses-base
  ncurses-bin ncurses-term net-tools netbase nfs-common ntp ntp-simple ntpdate nvi openssl passwd patch pciutils perl perl-base perl-modules php4-cli
  php4-common php4-gd php4-mysql pidentd portmap ppp pppconfig pppoe pppoeconf procmail procps psmisc python python-imaging python-newt python2.4 rcs
  reportbug sed sharutils ssh ssl-cert strace sysklogd sysv-rc sysvinit tar tasksel tcpd tcsh telnet texinfo traceroute ttf-bitstream-vera ucf usbutils
  util-linux w3m wamerican wget whiptail whois xlibs-data zlib1g
246 upgraded, 71 newly installed, 12 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 162MB of archives.
After unpacking 154MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
debian:~# 

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