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

[Colin Law]

On 10 August 2015 at 16:25, William Scott Lockwood III
<scott at guppylog.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> But what is the point in doing all that in order to see whether an
>> update using a method that is not recommended will work (editing the
>> sources), when he can just use the live CD to upgrade?
>
>
> The point is that he said he might want to do it that way. I don't
> judge as to why someone wants to do something one way vs another. It
> is possible. I'd rather give accurate information than tell someone
> something can't be done when in fact it is possible.

I did not suggest it can't be done, I just asked why he did not want
to do it the recommended way.

Colin