On Feb 4, 2008 12:41 PM, Scott Kitterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > 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 >
I agree, but I think most people that we care about will be doing Dapper -> Hardy. That complicates dist-upgrade a lot.
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