Upgrading to Squeeze repos

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As far as I know, proxmox relies on a debian lenny system, all repos are from Lenny. Since Debian stable has been upgraded to squeeze, now lenny is obsolete...

Is a good/bad idea to change apt-get repos to newest squeeze ones?

Regards!
 
it is bad idea
1. squeeze is new stable but lenny will be supported for 1 year since squeeze is released so it will continue to recive security updates
2. You can't just replace repos, You need to upgrade
3. squeeze is unsupported by proxmox team until proxmox 2.0 will arrive
just relax and wait for 2.0
 
well actually apart from security updates, I don't need squeezy for anything specially since I only look foward proxmox as for the kvm maximum support...

just wondering about the future of proxmox :)
 
So the time to release of 2.0 is ticking ;) One year left, or migrate 1,7+ to squeeze.
 
Fortunatelly I'm confident with this. Proxmox team is doing an awesome job in this sense. I was surprised when I saw prxomox 1.7 with ksm back sooner as I expected.
 
I have successfully upgraded my ProxMox production system to Squeeze repo. Nothing awful has happened. But, if you decide to reproduce my experience, you must apply you head brain to process.
1. First of all, try to perform "dist-upgrade" action on a test system, not on production one.
2. BEFORE upgrade, freeze (hold) the following list of packages (if you have such installed): cifs-utils, linux-image-*, pve-kernel-*, samba, samba-common, smbfs, vzctl. For example, you can do this such way as "echo "vzctl hold" | dpkg --set-selections", etc. Mentioned packages should not be updated, otherwise your system will be broken.
3. Before upgrade, manually update packages "locales", "mysql-server" (if you have them installed) from Squeeze repo.
4. You may meet conflict situation with the "pve-firmware" package, as it interferes with squeeze's one. I have resolved this trouble by accurate removal of "pve-firmware" and its dependencies. But you need to be very careful in order not to purge anything really necessary with it.

After satisfying this prerequisites you can safely upgrade your ProxMox installation up to Squeeze release, if you'd like to.
 
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