upgrades

[Leonard Chatagnier]

Mario, Thanks for the clarification.  I'll remember to use and tell about update manager and read the links.  Still wonder about use of synaptic and adept in kde for version upgrades but maybe the links will address this or some more knowledgable kde user will chime in.
Thanks again for the clarification,

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net


--- On Fri, 9/26/08, Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org> wrote:

> From: Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org>
> Subject: Re: upgrades
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Friday, September 26, 2008, 1:10 AM
> On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 22:55 -0700, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> > Are all of the methods I listed, synaptic and adept,
> depreciated. 
> 
> To be clear, changing sources.list and doing a dist-upgrade
> [1] with any
> of the package managers continues to work as well as it
> ever did: the
> user is supposed to resolve dependency issues (which
> usually _will_ come
> up here and there) and to implement any changes that cannot
> be expressed
> in the form of package dependencies (e.g., stuff like group
> memberships).
> Ubuntu does not test these upgrade paths and AFAIK
> Canonical does not
> support them.
> 
> The update-manager is fitted with special logic to resolve
> any issues
> for specific upgrades (e.g., 6.06 -> 8.04). These are
> downloaded before
> doing the upgrade, and aim to relieve the user from the
> tasks I
> mentioned above. This upgrade path is also tested. IMHO it
> should,
> therefore, be the method of choice to recommend to anyone
> who needs to
> ask.
> 
> The methods are detailed at
> http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading
> To upgrade to an alpha or beta release, special switches
> need to be used
> for update-manager:
> http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/intrepid/alpha6
> 
> 
> [1] dist-upgrade itself is deprecated, at least in
> aptitude. It is now
> called full-upgrade.
> 
> 
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