docs for dapper upgrade?

[Dan Trevino]

On Feb 4, 2008 12:41 PM, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:

> On Monday 04 February 2008 11:43, Mathias Gug wrote:
>
> > I'd mention that although dist-upgrade is available, it shouldn't be
> > used. We've seen some request on #ubuntu-server about fixing a
> > dist-upgrade failure. The basic answer is to use do-release-upgrade
> > instead of dist-upgrade.
>
> JFTR, I did Dapper -> Edgy -> Feisty -> Gutsy over the weekend on a
> Kubuntu
> box using dist-upgrade.  Dapper --> Edgy took some manual installing of
> packages to get through and Edgy --> Feisty and Feisty --> Gutsy just
> worked.
>
> I'd suggest that while dist-upgrade isn't the official way, it generally
> works
> and to the extent it doesn't it's because of packaging problems we ought
> to
> investigate and try to fix.
>
> do-release-upgrade automates updating sources.list and works through a
> bunch
> of special cases AFAICT.  I'd suggest that making dist-upgrade work is a
> good
> goal for improving the quality of our packaging.  We probably won't get
> there, but to the extent we get closer it makes do-release-upgrade's job
> easier and lower risk.
>
> Scott K
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I agree, but I think most people that we care about will be doing Dapper ->
Hardy.  That complicates dist-upgrade a lot.
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