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    22= Technical notes on upgrading from squeeze to wheezy =
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    4 This page details some of the issues we've encountered regarding the squeeze to wheezy upgrades, additional information can be found on #7425, [[squeeeze-wheezy-mosh-upgrade]], and [[support-team/server-upgrade-status]].
     4This page details some of the issues we've encountered regarding the squeeze to wheezy upgrades, additional information can be found on #7425, [wiki:squeeze-wheezy-mosh-upgrade], and [wiki:support-team/server-upgrade-status].
     5
     6== major changes ==
     7
     8please add more as we discover them:
     9
     10 PHP::
     11  we move from PHP 5.3 (which is [http://php.net/archive/2013.php#id2013-07-11-1 approaching end of life]) to PHP 5.4
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    613== phpmyadmin and php5_cgi ==
    … …  
    2532== configuration files to keep ==
    2633Almost all configuration files will use the package maintainers version.  Here is the short list of things not to modify:
    27 === /etc/cron.d/awstats ===
     34=== `/etc/cron.d/awstats` ===
    2835Keep the currently installed version, we do not actually want awstats to install a cronjob since we manage this cronjob separately.
    29 === /var/log/sysstat ===
    30 The newer version of sysstat asks that you delete the current files, '''Do it!'''.
    31 === /etc/default/grub ===
     36=== `/var/log/sysstat` ===
     37The newer version of sysstat asks that you delete the current files, '''do it'''
     38=== `/etc/default/grub` ===
    3239You will be given the following options for grub:
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    34 1. install the package maintainer's version 
    35 2. keep the local version currently installed 
    36 3. show the differences between the versions
    37 4. show a side-by-side difference between the versions 
    38 5. show a 3-way difference between available versions
    39 6. do a 3-way merge between available versions (experimental)
    40 7. start a new shell to examine the situation
     41 1. install the package maintainer's version 
     42 2. keep the local version currently installed 
     43 3. show the differences between the versions
     44 4. show a side-by-side difference between the versions 
     45 5. show a 3-way difference between available versions
     46 6. do a 3-way merge between available versions (experimental)
     47 7. start a new shell to examine the situation
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    4249You can safely just choose to keep the local version as there are no meaningful changes to the package maintainers version.
    4350
    44 === rebooting ===
     51== rebooting ==
    4552Upon rebooting rose using `shutdown -h now` the service on rose's host failed to start the kvm process.  This required the following commands from `root@florence.mayfirst.org`:
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