Noobie question concerning upgrading, was Re: Daper -> Fiesty

[Mario Vukelic]

On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 22:06 -0300, Felipe Figueiredo wrote:
> I guarantee, though, that first of all I tried the basic documented procedure of 
> dist-upgrade, as I have a little experience with debian, and has done it at 
> least once manually from dapper to edgy and edgy to feisty.

Of course I can't judge your case, as I don't know the details of what
you did, and I don't know your level of proficiency. I just know that I
have 8 years experience on Debian and Debian-like systems, including
their development branches, and I have performed countless
dist-upgrades, and pulled myself out of hairy broken dependencies. I
have yet to see a dist-upgrade that was not feasible. 

> There's no officially supported procedure for this task (dapper to feisty), no 
> wonder why.

dist-upgrades with apt-get/aptitude are not supported AT ALL. With good
reason, the only supported path is to use update-manager (which will
have a cmd line interface in the future, I think). It would be no
technical problem for the devs to create upgrade paths for
update-manager that skip one or more releases, but obviously the
overhead is much too high, and how many paths would there need to be?
Dapper - Edgy, Dapper - Feisty, Dapper - Gutsy, Dapper -Hardy, Edgy -
Feisty, Edgy - Gutsy, Edgy - Hardy, .... you see that it would be
impossible.