-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 4/29/2014 4:26 AM, Timo Jyrinki wrote: > I'm not sure about the details, but I did notice that there's a new > option "upgrade Ubuntu" when booting from 14.04 LTS image on a > machine that has 12.04 LTS. Maybe that function fills in the void?
That is a different process. Rather than upgrade packages, letting their upgrade scripts handle any needed migrations, it simply deletes the existing install, and installs the new release. I don't much care for that idea. It also only applies to desktop installs. From the bug reports I've seen it also seems to be somewhat unreliable. > Secondly, the new official image is already "DVD" image size wise, > since it's around 1GB while the old DVD image was 1.6GB (checked > 12.04 LTS). There is some size delta, but was it so that the old > DVD image also duplicated content because there was both the live > squashfs image and deb pool directory separately? Yes, there was some duplication on the old image. > There'd be more use for the "old old" (until 11.04) DVD images that > were 4GB+, ie something that contains more packages, but the DVD > image of late was quite close to the new "CD" image. Possibly, but I think that most of the extra 3 GB was rarely used. It seems like ~1 GB should be enough to cover 90% of the packages most people need to upgrade. Adding more gets quickly diminishing returns in terms of the number of packages that a given install needs to upgrade, while adding more unneeded download for others. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTX6lNAAoJEI5FoCIzSKrw5E8H/jkwPPdtZ+Mj8QDxDqaCIL4m CHZtXHL5Hr3fdena9vcJiuGuRWVIuGrbQz6V8IMYvYoYlt/v/K0E2F8BZsVhjkv5 th/X/StnQ+FLugJC51MIKQAFVwY5hS/z9DGGzWr7UNhntisvQLB3cAA2tWwH4REn +6MspfivFund9KwAQGQpJTa3lY5vruAbBBoI8V++yvodTcNOIcOo0iKwK5EwR8yV sACztvpjRw6dcngyoURNTXuLXpVhptwNqvNJXMqeWn64a1OZo80RyAyrC2GFz40h +AW8SMM9WjPYVzMp83U6Y00PeAF+ZlVghGfoVuS/8w5K3p1tG+SP24Y9xJWhcrc= =8cta -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
