Did we really release 8.04?

Mackenzie Morgan macoafi at gmail.com
Mon Jul 7 18:07:32 UTC 2008


On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Mathias Gug <mathiaz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 01:57:26PM -0400, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
>> On Mon, 07 Jul 2008, Emmet Hikory wrote:
>> >     This isn't a CLI vs. GUI issue, it's that some upgrade cases don't
>> > work well for special reasons.  Some of these are difficult to encode
>> > in terms of provides, conflicts, and replaces, and some are even
>> > impossible.  Upgrade Manager (which also has a cli client) has
>> > information about these special cases that allow the upgrade to
>> > continue.
>>
>>
>> update-manager has a cli client? Never heard of it.  How do you call it?
>
> As outlined on "Upgrading to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS" page in the "Network
> upgrade for Ubuntu servers (recommended)" section [1]:

Hm, I don't know why that's just the server section.  Stability issues
with the GUI one crashing all the time affect desktop users, and then
we're left trying to figure out how to recover from a half-upgraded
system.

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