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

[Colin Law]

On 10 August 2015 at 16:35, William Scott Lockwood III
<scott at guppylog.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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.
>
>
> Actually, your exact words were:
>> Even if it appears to work in a VM that is no guarantee that it will
>> work on another machine with different packages installed.
>
> That's the part I was calling FUD. Not the rest of it.

OK, that was not clear to me.  I did not realise that the comment I
was replying to relates to that though, ie:
>>> 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 thought you were referring to his desire to upgrade by editing the
sources.  If you were in fact referring to using a VM then that is how
we have been at cross-purposes.  Sorry.

I could have phrased my comment better, I was just trying to point out
that if he were to use a VM then it would not prove the point if the
VM did not have the same packages installed as his production system,
in case he did not realise that.  I was trying to be helpful, not
FUDful.

Cheers

Colin