Upgrading through apt source

[David Curtis]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:17 PM, Koh Choon Lin <durians009 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all
>
> Can anyone tell me what are the consequences for a box on 10.04, I
> change all the repositories to 10.10 and upgrade all the software? I
> realized it could be done and its still working fine after weeks now.
> Now, I am thinking of changing it to 11.04.
>
> Is there a list of tasks not done this way instead of upgrading the
> proper way, ie. "update-manager -d"?
>
>From 'man update-manager',

* eventually reinstall the package ubuntu-desktop
* switch to an updated sources.list entries
* adds the default user to new groups if needed

The top one is what usually gets people, if you've uninstalled
ubuntu-desktop, which is a very common occurence, you won't get the full
deps for that meta-package and won't get the new sofware sets that are
11.04.

I would guess that using update-manager now would probably not do anything
that bad and the logs would answer your question fully, but I've never
done it, YMMV.
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