Just to be clear, this bug is about a much smaller issue than whether
third-party repos should be supported during upgrade, on which I can see
good points either way.
For a "real" distribution upgrade, kicked off by clicking the "new
distribution version available" button in update-manager, you ge
> I don't get this aversion to third-party repositories. Surely it should
> be at least possible for third-party repositories to provide the
> appropriate packages to ease an upgrade? And if so, why on earth would
> we want to prevent them from doing that?
Because:
a) they are third-party reposito
I don't get this aversion to third-party repositories. Surely it should
be at least possible for third-party repositories to provide the
appropriate packages to ease an upgrade? And if so, why on earth would
we want to prevent them from doing that?
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cannot proceed through dist-upgrade if using
> I think it would be reasonable for the GUI to say: "you can't upgrade
> with these repositories. do you want me to disable them, or cancel?"
Either way, they will have to restart the upgrade/installation :)
> I think the current Ubuntu tradeoff of making them allowed but discouraged is
> reaso
In bug 125103, Savvas Radevic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Martin, unfortunately users are always suggested to uncheck any third-party
> repositories before upgrading to a new release. Anything that doesn't belong
> to the original distribution can and probably will create problems.
> But I agre
I was tempted to mark this a dupe of bug 125103 but I guess this is a
separate issue because it's not just unsigned PPAs it will barf on.
In any case, we're very close to fixing 125103 so hopefully some of the
pain will go away soon.
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On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 1:49 AM, Russel Winder
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jelmer,
>
> On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 14:51 +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
>> Am Dienstag, den 25.11.2008, 11:02 + schrieb Russel Winder:
>> > I just tried upgrading one of my machines from Hardy to Intrepid.
>> > However th
