Ubuntu 8.04 LTS upgrade from 7.10 fails

[Robert Stockdale IV]

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Felipe Figueiredo <philsf79 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sun 27 Apr 2008 17:05:18 Robert Stockdale IV wrote:
>
> >
> > I do have ¨Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu¨
> > however, I don´t see how that should be an issue. If those packages
> > don´t work after the upgrade then I will be required to reinstall them.
> > It should not prevent me from using the upgrade tool to upgrade my
> > system.
>
> It's not so simple, as you have already noticed. If the packages you
> installed didn't create dependency problems, things would go as smooth as
> you expected, however this looks like it's not the case for you. The
> upgrade process can only predict results based on what packages it knows,
> and that's official packages only.
>
> You didn't state which packages you installed from 3rd party repos, so
> it's impossible to tell what the problem is exactly, but I think you
> should remove them, and reinstall them after the upgrade.


If I could remember which ones were which, then it might not be such a
problem. I know most of them are Stock Market Charting programs and then
there are the multimedia installs from medibuntu. There might even be one or
two programs compiled from source code. Is there a way to find this out? Is
there a program or script that can be run to locate what is not supported?


>
>
> > It would be nice if there was a warning about this and an
> > option to proceed or cancel the upgrade.
>
> I believe there *is* a warning about unnoficial repos, but I'm sure what
> it does when you already have installed unofficial packages.


The only thing it gives is that it has disabled the 3rd party repos from the
source.list file. This is fine. The problem is that it cannot calculate the
upgrade.  I feel it should only calculate the supported packages and leave
everything else as it is, or warn that program x may not work after this
upgrade.


> It should be
> a fairly complex situation to deal with, automatically, because you could
> install an unofficial version of a package provided (say, a backport, or
> a locally generated package).


My point is that Ubuntu is rock solid. I want to upgrade Ubuntu. If it
breaks a third party program, so be it. I can reinstall something that gets
broken or remove it if it won´t  work. It should not stop me from upgrading
the OS.  Additionally, I should not have to wipe out my current set up and
reinstall from a CD/DVD from scratch just to upgrade to the next release
just because I needed some programs that Ubuntu dosen´t support.

>
>
> regards
> FF
>
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Thank you for your input and for listening to mine.
Bob
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