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

[Derek Broughton]

Mario Vukelic wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 20:07 -0300, Felipe Figueiredo wrote:
>> It was when Feisty was recently released, so I don't remember the
>> details. But aptitude's "advanced dependency algorithm" (compared to
>> apt-get) wasn't enough - it gave up after several minutes every time I
>> tried.
>> 
>> I also tried to make it one step at a time (upgrade/dist-upgrade, then
>> retry; sometimes a reboot in between, even against my beliefs that it
>> wouldn't matter - and in fact it didn't). Then I reached a point when no
>> package upgrade was possible.
> 
> It does not sound as if you exhausted all venues. What about "apt-get -f
> install", cautious use of "dpkg -i --force-things", etc.? Also I don't
> think it's such a good idea to upgrade before doing a dist-upgrade.
> 
>> > What do you mean?
>> > 
>> 
>> That the problems I faced are expected to happen, by the devels, and will
>> be dealt with the time comes.
> 
> You did not use the officially supported upgrade procedure, and so you
> are on your own when you upgrade with apt-get or aptitude.
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes

Absolutely - but Felipe's right.  The problems he faced _are_ going to be
faced by the developers when they provide a dapper to next-LTS upgrade, and
I'm just dieing to see how they cope.
-- 
derek