Breezy upgrade over Hoary

Alex Janssen alex at ourwoods.org
Sun Oct 16 07:09:21 UTC 2005


'Forum Post said the following on 10/07/2005 02:10 PM:

>Steve Wrote: 
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>>On 10/3/05, 'Forum Post <ulist (AT) gs1 (DOT) ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
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>>-How can I make certain of which packages I installed from backports?
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>>-What do I need to do to rectify, in order to upgrade?
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>You can use Synaptic to find things like this. Choose Settings >
>Repositories and take out the backports repositories. Then choose
>Settings > Filters and use the filters in the Other column to get a
>list of backport packages. Quite likely the "Not (no longer)
>installable" filter will work, but I can't say that for sure. You'll
>have to experiment.
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>Steve Wrote: 
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>>-Will the "upgrade to Breezy" offer choices so that nothing will be
>>"broken"?
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>Not exactly. If apt can't figure out the upgrade path, the process may
>completely fall apart, depending on how wide the dependency net is for
>whatever breaks. For example, if you've installed some crazy custom
>xorg debs and apt can't figure out how to upgrade them properly, you
>might end up with an X that doesn't work anymore.
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>The advice to back up everything first should be heeded. There are a
>lot of threads around here about how to back up and restore your system
>(it's pretty easy). You should especially back up your home directory,
>because that probably has all your important stuff in it.
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I just went to install Breezy over a stock install of Hoary and it 
failed reccomending that I format the partition to avoid this problem.  
As I had everything backed up,  I figured I had nothing to lose, so I 
did just that.  I had to reconfigure X11, reinstall Thunderbird and 
reconfigure fstab, but that's all so far and I'm back in business.  For 
users with a lot of other software installed,  this would be a pita for 
sure.  This works for me so well because I keep ALL of my data that I 
create on a separate partition.  Almost nothing goes on the install 
partition.  I have a small(15GB) ntfs with windows on it, two 
large(32&16GB) FAT32 partitions and a small(12GB) ext3 with linux on it.

This would have been easier if the "upgrade" would have worked.

Alex

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