Hoary to Breezy

[David Hart]

On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 11:10:52AM +0000, Anthony Gardner wrote:
>  Anyway, eventually I have managed to upgrade from CD from within hoary. After completing, I checked sources.list and saw that 
>  
>  deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 5.10 _Breezy Badger_ - Release i386 (20051012)]/ breezy main restricted 
>  
>  had been added b4 
>  
>  deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 5.04 _Hoary Hedgehog_ - Release i386 (20050407)]/ hoary main restricted

I assume that you did an auto upgrade by inserting a Breezy install
disk (I've never used that method).
  
>  but all other repository references point to hoary. 

There's nothing wrong with having old apt lines pointing to hoary
(they're redundant though).  Apt will use the latest version of a
package that it finds in all repositries but it's quite safe to remove
the references to hoary.
  
>  The question for this mail is .... shouldn't the hoary now be breezy. Should I just change them by hand?

It would be a good idea to put the security repositry in
/etc/apt/sources.list.  I notice from your next post that you are
running an old kernel that has had security updates.

You could add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list (or do the same
from within synaptic). Replace 'localhost:9999' with an archive near
to you ('archive.ubuntu.com' is the main one)  The ':9999' bit refers
to an apt-proxy that I'm running on this box.

    deb http://localhost:9999/ubuntu breezy main restricted universe multiverse

This is the main Ubuntu archive.  'main' and 'restricted' give you
what you find on the install cdrom.  'universe' and 'multiverse'
are optional, you can use them to get thousands of extra packages if
you wish (but with no guarantee of security updates).

    deb http://localhost:9999/ubuntu breezy-security main restricted universe multiverse

This line (or something similar) is a _must_ if you connect your box to
the net (it's where you will get the update to your kernel, for
example).  Again 'universe' and 'multiverse' are optional.

    deb http://localhost:9999/ubuntu breezy-updates main restricted universe multiverse

I've never figured out what this line really does.  Can anyone tell me?
:-)

    deb http://localhost:9999/ubuntu breezy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

You can add this line if you want to get to get updates to packages
that have been backported to breezy - it's mostly desktop type packages
and again, it's optional.

-- 
David Hart <ubuntu at tonix.org>