Will 6.10 upgrade to 7.04?

Corey Burger corey.burger at gmail.com
Thu Mar 22 05:53:55 UTC 2007


On 3/21/07, Brian Burger <blurdesign at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/21/07, Corey Burger <corey.burger at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 3/19/07, Richard Seguin <ubuntu at nb.aliant.net> wrote:
> > > Yes you would press ALT:F2, log in and then type gksudo "update-manager
> > > -c -d"
> >
> > This is, in fact, not needed with Feisty. The reason it was required
> > with 6.06 --> 6.10 was that 6.06 is a long term support release and
> > 6.10 is not. Hence users upgrading would be required to upgrade far
> > more times. With 6.10 --> 7.04 it is a short support to short support,
> > so the update-manager will function normally.
> >
>
> This brings up an interesting question: how is LTS->LTS support going to
> work? Currently you have to upgrade sequentially (5.10->6.06->6.10->etc) but
> by the time the next LTS release comes out,
> that's going to be a long string - and I
> can't see the corporate target market of the LTSes
>  being too happy with an upgrade setup that takes a week to run...
>
> I assume there's going to be some sort of super-upgrader for LTS->LTS work -
> anyone know of any planning on that front?
>
> Brian

The last time I heard any discussion on this was in Nov 2005, at UDS.
Therefor I am terribly out of the loop. However, not supporting such a
change would be insane from a commercial perspective.

Corey




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