[Bug 773823] Re: fails to upgrade with non-official repositories

[Brian May]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 289952 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/289952

I use approx, which is a caching proxy, you configure it though by
changing /etc/apt/sources.list. No idea how it compares with apt-cacher-
ng, in the past apt-cacher had limitations that stopped me using it.

approx is provided by Ubuntu, hence it should be supported by Ubuntu
too.

In fact Ubuntu shouldn't care what mirror you use, it should just work.
Even if this means somehow overriding internal checks or something.

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Title:
  fails to upgrade with non-official repositories

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: update-manager

  I have my /etc/apt/sources.list point to my approx mirror, so I don't
  have to download copies of every file for every computer I upgrade.
  update-manager considers all these entries as 3rd party sources and
  disables them all, and then complains it can't find ubuntu-minimal.

  Sometimes it will ask me if I want to rewrite maverick to natty - this
  always use to happen prior to 11.04, but now it is very inconsistent.
  I can't see how to activate that part of the code. When it does ask
  me, everything works fine.

  Brian May

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