Ante Karamatić wrote: > U Ned, 01. 03. 2009., u 10:41 -0500, sean darcy je napisao/la: > >> Well it seems more complicated than that. See: > > That description there is wrong. I'll contact someone to fix it. The > 'cookbook' I described works, it's not a random guess. It's a conclusion > on basis of a code review of update-manager and two upgrades (to prove > the findings). If that's not enough for you, check out the code your > self. > > I'm surprised that you asked for help, and once the help was given (on > Sunday), you concluded that the help wasn't good enough without even > trying. > >> This amount of hacking without any QA work, quite frankly, scares me. I >> may be left with a hunk of metal. I do find it surprising that such an >> important part of the ubuntu infrastructure fails. As it stands now, >> without some/a lot of hacking you can't do a network upgrade from any >> release that's not on archive.ubuntu.com. > > The amount of 'hacking' (I wouldn't call this hacking) is maybe too > much, but it's also true that you are upgrading unsupported software for > which, while software was supported, upgrade worked just fine. > > Once you upgrade to gutsy, be sure to upgrade to hardy asap, since EOL > for gutsy is couple of months away. > >
Sorry. I didn't realize you had done so much in this area. When I saw the web page with the additional complications I thought this was becoming more difficult than I was prepared for. I do appreciate your help - especially on Sunday. I'll take a deep breath, make a small burnt sacrifice, and try your suggestion. sean -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
