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Debian 12 “Bookworm” Enters Its Soft Freeze

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I have a /.git/ directory in the root of a Debian 11 server. Every change under /etc is carefully versioned. My plan when upgrading to 12 is to roll back all the changes, turn the upgraded config into a new commit, then rebase my config changes one by one. I anticipate that I will still be burned, but maybe less than before.

I use etckeeper for this, automatic daily commits if something changes, also does pre and post apt commits.

I use that for potential personal foot shots. Upgrades are almost always straight forward, just read the notes. I have been upgrading in place 6-12 systems since at least 2002.

Do you add every single file under /etc to that repository, or just selected ones or what is your workflow?

Yes, everything. The danger is that you won't notice that you changed something; if a file is not under git and you touch it, you don't know.

(I have extensive experience with the Quilt patch management system; countless times I forgot a "quilt add" before changing something. You will not remember.)

Stuff outside of /etc I've added on a case by case basis. I have customized some code in the Roundcube webmail app, so I put it that installation under git.

Now there is some garbage software that puts changing state under /etc. Can you believe it? Snap is like this, and I installed that in order to get Certbot (the SSL cert manager). So I ended up with spurious changes in these changing state files. Ugh.

Yeah thats why i'm asking, i also added everything but /etc is not as static as someone would think.

For certbot i would recommend to just install it with pip and throw snap out of the window. https://certbot.eff.org/instructions?ws=nginx&os=pip

Too risky at this point; I could end up with a site whose cert fails to renew. From my point of view, Snap to Python is like frying pan out of the fire. Better the devil that currently works.

Debían is legit. Bounced around for years. Debian is the best.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34849902

Love that they added cloud-init support for their cloud images

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