Tom Metro <[email protected]> writes: > I was looking to do a "dry run" test with do-release-upgrade to see if a > system could successfully be upgraded from 12.04 to 14.04 after some > changes had been made. (An earlier attempted failed to map packages from > the old release to the new release.) ... > test without even writing to the file system.) What I care about is how > badly will my alternate desktop manager be broken after an upgrade.
This is what Nix (and Guix) is supposed to provide, but designed in from the start. http://nixos.org/nix/ https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Introduction.html#Introduction -- Mike Small [email protected] _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
