Jaunty still in Beta?

Amedee Van Gasse (ubuntu) amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be
Sun Apr 26 15:45:06 UTC 2009


Derek Broughton schreef:
> Amedee Van Gasse (ubuntu) wrote:
> 
>> Karl F. Larsen schreef:
>>> Hakan Koseoglu wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>   
>>>>> In the general sense, installs from RC can be safely upgraded to the
>>>>> released version. This is _not_ true of alphas and betas, no matter
>>>>> what the release notes or rumour says.
>>>>>     
>>>> [citation needed]
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>     Yes the rumor mongers are all saying the early versions are:
>>>
>>> 1. Update to the real Jaunty.
>>> 2. You can NEVER get the real Jaunty if you start with a Beta LiveCD.
>>> 3. I am getting all the new package data on my Jaunty-Beta as I write
>>> this. This you get with $ sudo aptitude update. Next I used $ sudo
>>> aptitude full-upgrade and I am getting a huge number of new files.
>>>
>> People who read the release notes, will know that the beta used LABELs
>> in /etc/fstab, and the RC used UUIDs.
>> I prefer LABELs anyway, but that's just my personal preference.
> 
> But that shouldn't have any effect on the ability to upgrade from an earlier
> version.  I really can't imagine a situation where it would be impossible
> to upgrade from an alpha to the release version.

Of course you are right.
I am only describing a difference between "Alpha->Beta->RC->Jaunty" and
"Jaunty".



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