On Monday 04 February 2008 11:43, Mathias Gug wrote: > I'd mention that although dist-upgrade is available, it shouldn't be > used. We've seen some request on #ubuntu-server about fixing a > dist-upgrade failure. The basic answer is to use do-release-upgrade > instead of dist-upgrade.
JFTR, I did Dapper -> Edgy -> Feisty -> Gutsy over the weekend on a Kubuntu box using dist-upgrade. Dapper --> Edgy took some manual installing of packages to get through and Edgy --> Feisty and Feisty --> Gutsy just worked. I'd suggest that while dist-upgrade isn't the official way, it generally works and to the extent it doesn't it's because of packaging problems we ought to investigate and try to fix. do-release-upgrade automates updating sources.list and works through a bunch of special cases AFAICT. I'd suggest that making dist-upgrade work is a good goal for improving the quality of our packaging. We probably won't get there, but to the extent we get closer it makes do-release-upgrade's job easier and lower risk. Scott K -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
