Ubuntu releasing beta software???

[Art Edwards]

Here is the current status of my upgrade:

First, I am upgrading. I have now localized the problem to the
apt-cacher. That is, when I pointed directly to the ubuntu repositories,
I was able to finish the upgrade using dselect. I then imported all of
the   debs into the apt-cacher repository, and attempted an upgrade on
another 32-bit machine. Most of the packages came in well. However, when
I attempted to bring in a package that was not already in the apt-cacher
repository (the sources.list file points to the apt-cacher archives),
the upgrade stalls.

I am now trolling the web for apt-cacher errors with ubuntu.

Art Edwards

Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Saturday 28 April 2007, Mario Vukelic wrote:
>> Countless people have installed Feisty successfully, and it would be
>> reasonable for you to assume at first that this is an issue that is
>> local to your installation, instead of assuming everyone else is wrong.
>> Did you check that the CD is error free? Did you check in Launchpad
>> whether other people have the same problem?
> 
> And the other issue....  did he do an upgrade?    I have always maintained 
> that when doing an upgrade, you'll never know whether a bug you come across 
> is due to an incompatibility between releases or some new bug that comes with 
> the new release...   
> 
> Its a possibility in this case..
> 
> I went through all of the Edgy packages that I installed, and I found 5 that 
> also had 'beta' in their names.  It's a judgement call whether to use a beta 
> version of a package or to use an old version.   But in any event, it doesn't 
> make an entire release bad if a beta package is used.
>