updated the virtual server
The virtual server that runs my stuff was on 2020-era Debian Stretch LTS. There were reports it was ok to go Stretch->Bullseye but I was skeered.
I went Stretch->Buster->Bullseye and nothing major broke.
- edit /etc/apt/sources.list for the new target
- apt update
- apt upgrade
- apt full-upgrade
- apt autoremove
- syscontrol reboot
- repeat
The only thing (I know of) that broke was my blogging software; it had ruby2.3 hardcoded in the shebang and I changed that to just ruby since we are now on 2.7
Updated to add:
- rsync was gone for some reason. Reinstalled with apt install rsync
- youtube-dl was broken, or even more broken. Already jumped ship to the superior and actively-developed yt-dlp so I deleted the former.