Question regarding the upgrade to 14.04.3

[Erick Brunzell]

On 08/05/2015 03:23 PM, Bruce Pieterse wrote:
>
> On 03/08/2015 17:10, Patrik Bubák wrote:
>> Thanks a lot, that made things pretty clear.
>>
>> On Mon, 2015-08-03 at 09:34 -0500, Erick Brunzell wrote:
>>> Oopsy - below I said the 14.04.2, 14.04.3, and 14.04.4 HWE stacks
>>> would reach HWE EOL in August 2017. That should have said August
>>> 2016!!!!!! Sorry for the goof up.
>>>
>>> Lance
>>>
>>> On 08/03/2015 09:29 AM, Erick Brunzell wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 08/03/2015 07:34 AM, Patrik Bubák wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi lads,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not exactly sure how should I proceed if I'm on 14.04.2 and want
>>>>> to upgrade to .3. Will the update be available via the update
>>>>> manager, or is it recommended to rather do a quick re-install of /?
>>>> No need to reinstall, that would rather defeat the purpose of an LTS
>>>> wouldn't it? Trusty automatically moves from 14.04 to 14.04.1 to
>>>> 14.04.2 to 14.04.3, etc, etc .........
>>>>
>>>> Trusty will however remain on the kernel series and matching X-stack
>>>> version that were provided with the specific installation media until
>>>> the HWE stacks provided with 14.04.2, 14.04.3, and 14.04.4 reach EOL
>>>> some time in August 2017 at which point the update-manager will begin
>>>> to warn that the user is approaching HWE EOL and it will offer the
>>>> upgrade to the 14.04.5 HWE stack.
>>>>
>>>> If a user installed using either the 14.04 or 14.04.1 media they'll
>>>> remain on the OE HWE (3.13 series kernel) and not have to deal with
>>>> HWE EOL at all. One reason we didn't go out of our way recommending
>>>> that most users install using 14.04.1 media is that until 14.04.2
>>>> ubiquity had a very nasty bug that frequently resulted in data loss
>>>> during reinstallations.
>>>>
>>>> Lance
>>>>
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>>>>> Ubuntu <http://ubuntu.com/desktop>
>>>>>
>>>>> Nothing ruins creativity like too many voices weighing in. We call
>>>>> it the /Ice Cream Principle/. Tell 10 people to go get ice cream
>>>>> with one condition: they all have to agree on one flavour. That
>>>>> flavour is going to be chocolate or vanilla every time. Groups of
>>>>> people don't agree on what's cool or interesting, they agree on
>>>>> what's easy to agree on.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>> Ubuntu <http://ubuntu.com/desktop>
>>
>> Nothing ruins creativity like too many voices weighing in. We call it
>> the /Ice Cream Principle/. Tell 10 people to go get ice cream with one
>> condition: they all have to agree on one flavour. That flavour is going
>> to be chocolate or vanilla every time. Groups of people don't agree on
>> what's cool or interesting, they agree on what's easy to agree on.
>>
>>
>>
> This makes excellent FAQ material. Where should this go?
>
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu-gnome/+faqs or
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/FAQ or both?
>

Probably best for Ali to weigh in on this since he's done the lions 
share of Wiki work for the team.

Remember I made a boo-boo about dates (which is a bad thing) so it's 
best to rely on facts:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack#Kernel.2BAC8-Support.A14.04.x_Ubuntu_Kernel_Support

Also I couldn't for the life of me remember the package name responsible 
for displaying OS version but it's 'base-files'. The most recent Trusty 
changelog is self explanatory:

base-files (7.2ubuntu5.3) trusty; urgency=medium

   * /etc/issue, /etc/issue.net, /etc/lsb-release, /etc/os-release: Bump
     version number to 14.04.3 in preparation for the point release.

  -- Adam Conrad <adconrad at ubuntu.com>  Mon, 03 Aug 2015 10:39:14 -0600

Can't think of anything else to add at the moment.

Lance