The theory of upgrading from 14.04 to 15.04 using /etc/apt/sources.list

[David Fletcher]

On Sun, 2015-08-09 at 18:11 -0500, Simon Quigley wrote:
> Has anyone ever tried upgrading right to 15.04 by just
> editing /etc/apt/sources.list and replacing where it says trusty with
> vivid, then doing sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade?
> 
> 
> Does it work? If it doesn't work, why?

No idea at all. A virtual machine is the place for such experiments.
If/when it breaks you delete it from your hard drive no harm done.

Dave