05/14: upgrade debian to devuan
I had a very smooth upgrade of a Debian wheezy system to Devuan jessie. This is a small system that doesn’t have a desktop or use any other dbus things — it mostly runs as an unattended server and I only connect to it occasionally.
I just edited sources.list to point to the Devuan repos, then
apt-get update apt-get install devuan-keyring apt-get update apt-get install apt dpkg apt-get upgrade -d apt-get upgrade ** see below for better instructions
and it went very smoothly.
Well to tell the truth, I did do a backup first, and also made sure I had both Debian and Devuan netinstall CD (or DVD) that worked. But as it turned out I didn’t need them. It was very painless and so far the upgrade works just fine.
Next step will be to apt-get dist-upgrade.
Better instructions
In case you are smarter than me, here are some better instructions on how to do the upgrade. I was lucky, my system was simple and could upgrade easily. If you have a desktop or use dbus, you will have problems unless you use dev1fanboys instructions.