Upgrade to Dapper on production server

[Sundar Nagarajan]

John Dangler wrote:
> I don't know if this message went through to the group, so at the risk
> of dupes, I'll re-post.
> I have a LAMP server currently running 5.10, and would like to upgrade
> this to Dapper.  I do not have direct access to the server (SSH/FTP
> only).  Has anyone here done this that would be willing to give me some
> direction on this?  I would expect that I would need to take a snapshot
> of the entire system, change the apt sources to dapper, and then run
> apt-get dist-upgrade, but I am concerned about the configuration of
> Apache, bind, dns, clam, mysql, etc. changing when the upgrades are
> complete.
> 
> (Ultimately I would like to have this upgrade also run php5/mysql5)
> 
> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> 


I had Breezy 5.10 on a box - that admittedly was _not_ a _production_ 
box, but my trusty desktop. But I did have Apache, MySQL, PHP configured 
and working on it. I did just what you wrote - change 
/etc/apt/sources.list and run apt-get dist-upgrade - and it worked FINE.