update recommendations?

[Gustin Johnson]

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Khashayar Naderehvandi wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 7:21 PM, suemac at empire.net <suemac at empire.net> wrote:
>> I guess UBStudio 8.10 has the latest revs of much of the software.
>>
>> Does this include the latest of Ardour, Jack, Audacity. (is ffado in there?)
>>
>> I will pop to the site and dig a bit, but that's not really the point of
>> this post.
>>
>> Status:
>>
>> - 8.04 -rt with the latest Ardour, Jack, ffado working
>>
>> - ffado is to be included in 9.0
>>
>> Should I bother with upgrading to 8.10 or wait for 9?

It depends.  I am quite happy with 8.10, YMMV.
>>
>> In either case, having not attempted an upgrade as yet, what's the
>> recommended procedure?

Not surprising, there is more than one way to do it.

>> Is there a procedure that will maintain email, network, data and other
>> settings?

You can backup your home partition, reinstall, then restore your home
partition.  You can do an in place upgrade (probably best if done from
8.10).  Again, there is more than one way to do it.
> 
> Since 8.10 is not recommended and 9.04 probably will be, you should go
> from 8.04 to 9.04. The trouble is, as far as I know, nobody knows if
> an upgrade from 8.04 to 9.10 will work, at least I don't think it's
> officially supported (anybody else, please enlighten me on this
> point).
> 

8.04 to 9.04 is not supported and may or may not work.  8.04 -> 8.10 ->
9.04 should work (I have been upgrading my Ubuntu boxes in place like
this for years, as well as Debian before that).  LTS to LTS should also
work.  This is for vanilla Ubuntu btw.  There may be the odd snag but an
in place upgrade is doable and is in fact how I prefer to do it (a 10+
year Debian habit).

> If you happen to have a separate home partition, the easiest way to go
> about, in my opinion, is to do a clean install of 9.04 and use your
> old home partition. If all else fails, you can always do a complete
> backup of your home, do a clean install, and then restore your home
> partition.
> 

To each their own.  This should also work.  If reinstalling, what I will
often do is create a list of installed packages:
dpkg --get-selections > installed-packages.txt

After the clean install, you can mark all of the previously installed
packages for install with the following:

cat installed-packages.txt |dpkg --set-selections

Of course you should backup the installed-packages.txt file as it will
be overwritten by the clean install.
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