[Fwd: Re: Two rather negative articles about Ubuntu]

[Lee Revell]

On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 10:40 -0700, Edward Craig wrote:
> What? You put the CD into a booted Ubuntu system, Ubuntu (after a
> while) reports an Ubuntu CD in the drive, asks you if you want to
> upgrade, upon clicking  "yes" (and perhps accepting an Opera download,
> and a new version of GTK, if memory serves) it goes ahead and upgrades
> your system.
> 

I'm not sure who you are responding to.  But the standard way to upgrade
a Debian system has always been to replace the old version with the new
in sources.list and "apt-get dist-upgrade".

It's a bug if this breaks things or does not work.

> I'm trying to figure out where the repartitioning came into the
> ourtweaks review. I think that was a re-install, not an upgrade.
> 
> On 7/2/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 18:56 +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> > > Sorry, Lee, for replying in private first. I find it _really_ annoying
> > > that reply-to is inconsistently set on ubuntu lists, I have other stuff
> > > to remember than that :(
> > >
> >
> > Me too but I don't want to restart that flame war... ;-)
> >
> > > On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 12:39 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > > > This seems to be the "ubuntu-desktop got uninstalled" bug.
> > >
> > > Or rather the "I ignored every word of the upgrade instructions" bug.
> >
> > I disagree - if replacing breezy with dapper in /etc/apt/sources.list
> > and running "apt-get dist-upgrade" does not work, it's a bug.  This has
> > always been the standard way to upgrade a Debian system and IMHO must
> > work.
> >
> > Lee
> >
> >
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> 
> 
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