Recent changes to Ubuntu

[Claude Paroz]

Le jeudi 07 avril 2005 à 10:18 +0200, Sean Wheller a écrit :
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> 
> On our part we also need to be more vigilant. I highly recommend that all 
> authors document against development and not the preview releases. Post Hoary 
> this means updating your apt sources, doing regular reloads of the sources 
> lists and performing upgrades as the come in. For next version this means 
> that the authors platform may become unstable. I normally do this work on a 
> lab machine. Not everybody has this luxury, so if anyone has suggestions on 
> how to do this, please speak now.
> 

I think it should be possible to have two releases on the same PC,
thanks to debootstrap and chroot. I'm not geek enough to give clear
explanations, but I'm sure someone would.
Something like:

sudo apt-get install debootstrap
sudo mkdir /breezy-chroot
debootstrap hoary /breezy-chroot http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/

To be continued (on the Wiki)...

Claude