Ubuntu server holding back on me

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Freitag, den 22.09.2017, 07:32 -0400 schrieb Peter Silva:
> I think an additional source of confusion is that upgrading debian, a
> normal way to upgrade to a later 'stable' (equiv. to LTS) is to
> change
> repos in /etc/apt, and do 'apt-get dist-upgrade'... while this
> operation was always fairly functional and reliable to upgrade Debian
> servers, I had little, if any success using it in Ubuntu
> (do_release_upgrade works bettter.) It is unexpected and confusing
> that Debian and Ubuntu are different in that way, since they are so
> close otherwise.
> 
if you actually hit an issue where this results in an actually broken
system you should file a bug. 

while do-release-upgrade and update-manager as its graphical frontend
provide additional migration features and are indeed the preferred (and
regular QA tested) ways for release-to-release upgrades, manually
changing sources.list and upgrading with apt only should still not
trash your system or leave you with massive brokenness.

please file bugs about such issues ;)

ciao
	oli
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