A couple of rants about Launchpad

[Daniel Robitaille]

On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 8:21 PM, Christopher Chan
<christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
>
>> Now, I tend to agree that tools that are unsupported shouldn't be included
>> (ie, apt-get - aptitude is NOT installed by default), but the proper
>> upgrade tools work in almost all cases.  Of course, they'll never eliminate
>> all the edge conditions...
>>
>
> Great. apt-get not supported? Now that means if I have a hundred
> desktops to look after, I am going to have to go round to each one,
> login and then start the upgrade process. Even if the upgrade process is
> flawless, this means any huge rollout will be a major pain in the neck
> to maintain.
>
you can always run "do-release-upgrade" on each of them remotely. I
belive that comment is equivalent to the graphical upgrade tool.


-- 
Daniel Robitaille