Colony 3 to Colony 4...

Shannon McMackin mcmackin at earthlink.net
Tue Sep 6 15:43:55 UTC 2005


Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 10:42:39AM -0400, Shannon McMackin wrote:
> 
>>earobinson wrote:
>>
>>>update process should do it!
>>
>>That's probably correct for sub-version releases in moving from Colony 3
>> to Colony 4.
>>
>>It seems more appropriate that "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" would be the
>>method of going from Hoary to Breezy.
> 
> 
> You may well still need to use dist-upgrade within a development tree
> such as Breezy is at the moment.
> 
> 
>>/etc/issue makes no distinction between the Colony versions.
> 
> 
> "Colony CD <x>" is purely a tag applied to CD images.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
In this case, apparently not.

> mcmackin at mariner:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> Password:
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Calculating upgrade... Done
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

This was after running sudo apt-get update.

Is /etc/issue the only place distro version is stored?  Just trying to
learn as much as possible about this "new-to-me" distro...

Shannon





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