On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 12:41:17PM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: > 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.
Although, in most cases, they're fairly easy to sort out/remedy, ime. (from the sed and apt school of upgraders) -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
