Does anybody use apt-get dist-upgrade to upgrade to Hardy?

[Anna EdwARds]

That is why i back up that one file for apt-get program locations and put it back when done (adding the new package location)

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--- Original Message ---
Date: Thu Apr 24 13:35:30 PDT 2008
From: "Michael R. Head" 
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Does anybody use apt-get dist-upgrade to upgrade to Hardy?
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On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 14:35 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Oliver Grawert wrote:
> 
>> use update-manager-core for commandline upgrades, dont use apt-get if> you cant handle the fallout you get with it (u-m has builtin handling> for a ton of special cases to guarantee a smooth upgrade in any case.
> 
> Guarantee?  That's a huge improvement over Gutsy...
> 
> I tried update-manager for the first time with gutsy, and it broke, so I went back to aptitude.

I've updated a few machines (both 6.06LTS and 7.10) with both update-manager and update-manager-core (over the past month or two). The only major glitch (in the upgrade process specifically) I encountered was due to an out of sync mirror. 

In my experience, the dist upgrader has seen a lot of improvement since it was first introduced a couple years ago.

Of course it's annoying that it disables third party repositories, but that's easy to correct post-upgrade.

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> derek
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