[ubuntu-x] Fighting renames, day 1 (now day 2 and 3)

[Maarten Lankhorst]

Hey,

Op 29-05-12 21:03, Bryce Harrington schreef:
> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 06:45:58PM +0200, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
>> Test procedure:
>> I booted off the 12.04 i386 cd, then did roughly this:
>>
>> $ sudo sed -e 's/http/s/.*/#&/' -i /etc/apt/sources.list # Remove http entries to limit upgrade
> This didn't work for me; I used this instead:
>
>  $ sudo sed -e 's/deb http/#deb http/' -i /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> Shouldn't that be equivalent?
's/http/s/.*/#&/' first s is erroneous. It just comments out all lines by prefixing with # :)
'/http/s/.*/#&/' should be correct


>> $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/q-lts-backport
>> $ sudo apt-get update
>> $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade # Pull in updated packages that would otherwise break
>>
>> $ sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-lts-backport-quantal \
>>   xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-video-lts-backport-quantal \
> Guessing the latter package should be xserver-xorg-video-all ?
I fixed the renamed xorg package today, now installing 
xserver-xorg-lts-backport-quantal is sufficient to pull in everything.

>>   libgl1-mesa-dri-lts-backport-quantal libgl1-mesa-glx-lts-backport-quantal \
>>   # And upgrade our stack to precise!
>>
>> $ sudo restart lightdm # Magic!
>>
>> If everything goes well, only renamed packages will be removed.
> Here's the results of my upgrade test on a live usb x86_64 image:
>
>
> ...            
Seems about right. :-)

Does it survive a 'sudo restart lightdm' ?

~Maarten