Prevent do-release-upgrade from disabling 3rd party repos

[Chris Green]

On Fri, Aug 30, 2024 at 07:35:23AM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> I have a local APT repository with custom packages that I install, it's  
> added to /etc/apt/sources
> 
> I want to use do-release-upgrade to update jammy to noble.
> 
> I rebuilt my custom packages for noble, using pbuilder-dist, and installed  
> them in the apt repo, everything should be ready to go.
> 
> However, no matter what I try, do-release-upgrade wants to disable third  
> party repos:
> 
> ===============================================================
> Third party sources disabled
> 
> Some third party entries in your sources.list were disabled. You can
> re-enable them after the upgrade with the 'software-properties' tool
> or your package manager.
> 
> ===============================================================
> 
> Things that I have tried, based on Googling around:
> 
> 1)
> 
> $ cat /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades.d/mine.cfg
> [Sources]
> AllowThirdParty = yes
> 
> 2)
> 
> $ do-release-upgrade --allow-third-party
> 
> Neither one makes any difference. do-release-upgrade still issues a warning  
> that it's going to disable third party sources. How do I do this, for  
> upgrading from jammy to noble?
> 
Just do the upgrade, then re-enable the 3rd part sources and do 'apt
update', 'apt upgrade'.


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Chris Green