Announcing Beta release of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS

[kareem shabazz]

On 4/21/06, Antony Gelberg <antony at wayforth.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > It is possible to upgrade manually, but the DapperUpgrades method is
> > strongly recommended.  A simple dist-upgrade attempts to resolve the
> entire
> > upgrade based solely on the package metadata, while the upgrade tool is
> more
> > sophisticated and has explicit logic supplied by the development team to
> > provide a smooth upgrade.
> >
>
> Can you point me to more info on this?  I don't like the sound of it.
> I'm used to the distro being nothing more than the sum of its packages,
> hence the metadata being enough.  What "explicit logic" is required over
> and above package metadata?  This is not good news for those of us who
> want to upgrade machines without a GUI tool.



Does anyone get this message when upgrading to Dapper with "update-manager
-d):

failed to fetch
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/breezy/multiverse/source/Sources.gz
Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)

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