moving from 7.10 to 8.04

[Mario Vukelic]

On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 18:19 +0100, ike ibekwe wrote:
> my attempt to upgrade from gutsy gibbon to hardy heron failed and it seems
> to be an issue with my repositories. if your attempt succeeded, please
> may i have your own repositories information. alternatively you can tell
> me how to fix mine.

There should be no reason [1] to mess with repositories if you follow
the recommended upgrade procedure:
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading

Otherwise, just replace any occurrences of "gutsy" with "hardy". E.g.,
here is my sources.list (which has everything enabled, including the
proposed updates and backports. Remove these if you require that your
system is stable). After replacing your sources.list you need to run
"sudo aptitude update" and then "sudo aptitude full-upgrade". Note,
however that this procedure is not supported and _will_ require you to
fix various problems manually. 

----------------- my sources.list ------

deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy restricted universe
multiverse main
deb-src http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy restricted universe
multiverse main

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates restricted
universe multiverse main
deb-src http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates restricted
universe multiverse main

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the
Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as
to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
security
## team.

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the
'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it
includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful
features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any
review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.


deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security restricted universe
multiverse main
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security restricted
universe multiverse main
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-backports restricted main
multiverse universe
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-backports restricted
main multiverse universe
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu hardy partner
deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-proposed restricted main
multiverse universe
deb-src http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-proposed restricted
main multiverse universe