Upgrade notes Warty -> Hoary: some important things are missing

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 12:06:44PM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:

> Stuff I found out:
> 
> *** UTF-8 conversion:
> menu System -> Help -> Hoary Release Notes -> What's new says:
> "Ubuntu 5.04 uses UTF-8 as the default encoding and locale, and includes
> migration compatibilities for upgrades"
> 
> This left me slightly confused because it made me wonder whether I have
> to _do anything trigger the conversion. The Upgrade Notes said nothing
> about it, but as they are not complete, I still am not sure.

No changes are required unless you wish to change from using another
character set to using UTF-8.  This is not done automatically, because the
effects are too far-reaching.

A migration tool was developed, but it was not ready in time to be used for
the release (utf8-migration-tool).

> *** sudo permission configurable from System -> Administration -> Users
> and Groups -> <user> -> Properties -> User privileges
> 
> In fresh Hoary installs it is possible to give any user sudo rights
> through the GUI. 
> 
> On upgrades from Warty, enabling this needs manual user intervention: 
> /etc/sudoers has to be changed from the Warty version of "<username>
> ALL=(ALL) ALL" to the Hoary version of "%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL".
> 
> In addition, a group "admin" has to be created (this seems not to exist
> in Warty, at least this was my experience). The gid of this group should
> preferably be < 1000 (Debian policy for system groups).
> 
> Users that need sudo rights need to be added to this new group. For the
> first user, this has to be done by editing the sudoers file. Additional
> users can then be added by the first users from the Users and Groups
> GUI.
> 
> Caution has to be applied:  Before saving sudoers, it has to be made
> sure that at least one user is already in the admin group. If admin is
> empty, suddenly no user has sudo rights. If the root user is disabled,
> there is then no way to add anybody to group admin - one must reboot
> into single user mode and long in as root to add users to admin.

This is a risky procedure for an average user to attempt, and in most cases
it is unnecessary.  I do not recommend that users perform this conversion as
a matter of course when upgrading to Hoary.  The existing configuration will
continue to work.

> *** CD symlink creation by udev
> Fresh Hoary installs have this in /etc/udev/rules.d:
> 
> mario at phonic: /etc/udev $ ls -l rules.d/
> total 0
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 19 2005-03-23 17:46 cd-aliases.rules
> -> ../cd-aliases.rules
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 13 2004-08-07 20:13 udev.rules -> ../udev.rules
> 
> When upgrading from Warty, the symlink for cd-aliases.rules has to be
> manually created:
> 
> cd /etc/udev/rules.d; ln -s ../cd-aliases.rules;
> 
> Also see https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7789#c3 There, Jeff
> Bailey says that the note about this is "already in the Release Notes".
> However, it isn't :)

You added this to the WartyUpgradeNotes page in the wiki, which is not where
it belongs.  I moved it to HoaryUpgradeNotes.

-- 
 - mdz