Upgrade from 8.04 to 10.04 LTS (BORKED)

[Christopher Chan]

On Tuesday, September 14, 2010 12:20 AM, Tom H wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Pastor JW
> <pastor_jw at the-inner-circle.org>  wrote:
>> On Sunday, September 12, 2010 11:02:21 pm Gilles Gravier wrote:
>>>>
>>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LucidUpgrades#Network Upgrade for
>>>> Ubuntu Desktops (Recommended)
>>>>
>>>> Upgrade from 8.04 LTS to 10.04 LTS
>>>>
>>>> ----------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> Network Upgrade for Ubuntu Desktops (Recommended)
>>>
>>> Which means you did this : "Because Kubuntu 8.04 was not an LTS release
>>> and has passed its end of life, direct upgrades to Kubuntu 10.04 LTS
>>> from Kubuntu 8.04 are not supported. Please follow the directions for
>>> upgrading Kubuntu 8.04 to 9.10
>>> <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KarmicUpgrades/Kubuntu/8.04>  first,
>>> then follow the directions above for upgrades from Kubuntu 9.10."
>>>
>>> You upgraded fist to 9.10... then to 10.04?
>>
>> Because of the above foolishness regarding LTS releases, I merely booted into
>> Gnome which is otherwise never used around here, performed the 8.04 to 10.04
>> upgrade and then rebooted into my new Kubuntu 10.04.  There never should have
>> been any part of an LTS release not really a LTS part.  It just confuses users
>> and causes bad mouthing of the product.  It is only a good way to drive away
>> users.
>
> You wasted your time booting into GNOME (although I would have gone
> into single user mode as I said earlier).
>
> I'm amazed that Kubuntu 8.04 wasn't an LTS release. There must be some
> KDE-related apps/libs/whatever whose security updates weren't meant to
> be supported for 3 years...

KDE 3.5. :-|

Zee only thing that has a tool that supports group based policies + 
profiles.


>
> I doubt that had you run the upgrade manager (gui or cli) in Kubuntu
> that you wouldn't have been able to do an 8.04 to 10.04 upgrade. The
> upgrade manager app basically changes the sources.list and does an
> upgrade (with some steps, etc, I'm sure). It's a python script, IIRC,
> and a person speaking python could most probably modify it to do, for
> example, an 8.10 to 10.04 direct upgrade.
>

/me shudders. I used Synaptic to upgrade from Hardy to Intrepid to 
Jaunty. Never used whatever the Kubuntu team put out.