Greetings,
I am in the process of making my plan to upgrade to lucid when it is officially
released in April. I am currently using Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and I want to make
sure everything is set for the transition to go as smooth as possible.
Some potentially useful background: I'm using a laptop: duel-booting Ubuntu
and Windows XP. I HAVE Ubuntu split over two partitions (One for / and one for
/home). I maintain regular (monthly) backups of my rootsystem and home
directories (each partition gets its own backup). under the settings for
software sources and preferences (found under the administration menu of the
top pannel: I don't recall the exact name), I currently have my system set to
only upgrade to LTS versions of Ubuntu.
(A) configuration files?
Will my settings in configuration files (I.E. those found in /etc/) remain
preserved across the upgrade? Also will anything I added to ~.bashrc be
preserved as well? Or will I need to re-tweek these files upon upgrade.
(B) custom-builds?
I built the git editions of orca, at-spi and atk for the gnome-2.22 system.
Will apt-get dist-upgrade automatically replace these with the default versions
for lucid, or should I uninstall the git-builds and re-install the repository
versions?
(C) best upgrade method?
I've been switching from apt-get to aptitude for my package-management uses,
but from reading the documentation in man, it looks like apt-get dist-upgrade
is the recommended method for upgrading distribution releases from the
command-line: is this correct?
(D) anything else?
Are there any other concerns I should be looking at? Useful tidbits to keep in
mind?
Thank you in advance for your assistance:-)
I look forward to getting caught back up with the linux community.
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