[Bug 1101073] Re: Precise ubiquity fails to provide a reinstall option

[Erick Brunzell]

Just to satisfy my own curiosity, and refresh my memory, I ran tests on
Oneiric, Precise, Quantal, and Raring i386 images and a summary of
results is as follows:

Oneiric; The 11.10 final image offers upgrade, reinstall, and downgrade
- BUT all are referred to as upgrades.

Precise; The 12.04 final, 12.04.1 final, and 12.04.2 (20130117.1) images
only offer upgrades - no reinstall or downgrade.

Quantal; The 12.10 final image offers upgrade and reinstall, named
appropriately - but no downgrade.

Raring; The 13.04 (20130119) image offers both upgrade and reinstall -
BUT both are referred to as upgrades.

I'm not sure that's helpful at all but thought it was worth sharing.

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Title:
  Precise ubiquity fails to provide a reinstall option

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Apologies in advance, I know this gets a bit convoluted, but I've been
  working on verification for bug #1066347 as it relates to 12.04 for
  about 48 hours and I've run into many obstacles, some just relating to
  my lack of consistent testing of the "Reinstall - Documents, music,
  and other personal files will be kept. Installed software will be kept
  where possible. System-wide settings will be cleared" option. But
  first things first;

  I began testing the "reinstall" option in Precise with an existing and
  updated Precise but I was not offered that option, only:

  http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=230227&d=1358480760

  Knowing that we began offering upgrade and reinstall options with
  Maverick I installed Oneiric and tried. This was OK, although it does
  say "upgrade Oneiric to Oneiric" rather than reinstall:

  http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=230178&d=1358427210

  I then tried an upgrade via live CD from Oneiric to Precise
  20130115-i386 and all worked as expected.

  I then also tried Lucid -> Precise and again all was well.

  But since then I've tried numerous Precise -> Precise reinstall
  efforts and I always just get:

  http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=230229&d=1358480760

  The latest test was with Precise 20130117.1-i386.

  Since we have only about 4 weeks to get the 12.04.2 images right I
  hope we can get this fixed as I find the upgrade and reinstall options
  offered by the live images to be one of the best things we've ever
  done ;^)

  NOW, as to why I filed the bug this way. I guess apport doesn't think
  ubiquity is an official package anymore:

  http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=230231&d=1358484133

  Maybe I need to report a separate bug regarding that?

  FINALLY, the Quantal images seem to be fine if that matters.

  Apologies again but I'm a bit lost ....... maybe more than a bit.

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