Strange issue upgrading from Edgy to Feisty -- or is it an issue?

[Larry Hartman]

I am going to try and answer this one.....

What I gather from seeing the posts on the development of the upgrade tool and 
watching it work first-hand.....hey I even tried to break it to find its 
points of failure.....what I learned in all of this is that essentially the 
upgrade tool remaps your sources.list file to Feisty, then downloads and 
installs the packages for you.  This makes the upgrade tool an add-on 
application to Adept Updater (rather than a separate program) that prevents 
you from having to do the work via more manual methods, such as apt-get, etc.  
What I can tell you about the reliability of this tool is that if you kill 
the power to your machine in the middle of its download and restart Adept 
Updater it will return to the point where the download was stopped.

Those 1048 packages which you see that are uncommitted are the packages that 
the upgrade tool would have installed if it ran through its full process.  If 
you run Adept Updater and leave it install those packages you will arrive at 
Feisty at the end of the lengthy process--more than likely unharmed.

Now whether your individual applications will run at the end depends upon what 
software you run, how the software is setup, and their dependencies.  I do 
not believe that anyone can guarantee a clean upgrade regardless of the 
method used, but I do think that most folks who have upgraded from Edgy to 
Feisty are pretty satisfied.  So far I have not noted any issues on my laptop 
with any software, and I am enjoying Feisty immensely.

If you have specific applications that you wish to know will run cleanly under 
Feisty, perhaps you can list them and someone on this list might give you 
a "go" or "no go" for that particular app.   Hope this helps.

Larry 

On Thursday 26 April 2007 03:18:06 pm Wafa Hakim Orman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I went through the standard network install from Edgy to Feisty on my
> desktop & everything worked perfectly. I am now trying to go from Edgy
> to Feisty on my Toshiba A45 Satellite notebook & things are rather weird.
>
> What happens is, I go to adept-manager, I update the repositories, it
> tells me there is a new version available, I click ok, it downloads the
> first update tool & then vanishes. Poof, out of sight. Adept-manager
> stays open but there is no sign of the distribution upgrade interface.
> (On my desktop there was a separate window showing the progress of the
> distribution upgrade.)
>
> When I look through my repositories, I see that they have all been
> changed to Feisty. When I try to exit Adept-manager, it says there are
> uncommitted updates -- it wants to install 1048 new packages, all of
> which are Feisty packages.
>
> This is a work machine with a lot of important software & data on it (at
> least the data is safe in its own /home partition) but will it be safe
> to just let it install all those Feisty packages? Will that achieve a
> distribution upgrade, as seamless as on the other computer?
>
> I don't know if this is important, but when I went from Dapper to Edgy
> on this notebook that is now acting funny, I had used the network
> upgrade, just changing all instances of dapper to edgy in my
> sources.list & doing apt-get dist-upgrade. On the desktop, that had not
> worked so I had to format the / partition & install Edgy from a cd. Now
> it looks like the roles may have been reversed between my two machines...
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Wafa.
>
> --
> "So it goes."
> 	--Kurt Vonnegut