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

[Florian Diesch]

Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:

> 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.

If it doesn't work is has to say that it doesn't work. And there has to
be a way do do an upgrade by CLI.


   Florian
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