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

[William Scott Lockwood III]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10 August 2015 at 16:05, Simon Quigley <sqawesome99 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> C,
>>
>> So should I try it in a VM?
>
> Even if it appears to work in a VM that is no guarantee that it will
> work on another machine with different packages installed.
>
> Why not just use a live image to do the upgrade from, or do it the
> normal way in two steps.


Sorry, but that's just fear mongering. Do I really need to explain how
to duplicate the package list and sources.list on a test machine so
that it matches your production environment?


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W. Scott Lockwood III