The way the release upgrade process works is that it downloads a tarball
from the next release we can see this in the meta-release file.
Dist: wily
Name: Wily Werewolf
Version: 15.10
Date: Thu, 22 October 2015 15:10:00 UTC
Supported: 1
Description: This is the 15.10 release
Release-File:
Thanks for fixing this. Maybe I'm misunderstanding this, but shouldn't
this be released into vivid repositories to handle updates from vivid to
wily?
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I see. Thank you for taking your time to explain this, Brian.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1509305
Title:
new kernel removed after upgrade if linux meta package not installed
To
I tested an upgrade from Vivid to Wily using the release upgrader in
-proposed with the following results:
2015-10-27 17:57:09,161 INFO Using config files '['./DistUpgrade.cfg']'
2015-10-27 17:57:09,161 INFO uname information: 'Linux clean-vivid-amd64
3.19.0-30-generic #34-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 2
This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-release-upgrader - 1:15.10.14.1
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ubuntu-release-upgrader (1:15.10.14.1) wily-proposed; urgency=medium
* DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeQuirks.py: add in a quirk to ensure that a linux
metapackage is installed after the release upgrade. (LP:
** Summary changed:
- wily kernel removed after upgrade if linux meta package not installed
+ new kernel removed after upgrade if linux meta package not installed
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Hello zob, or anyone else affected,
Accepted ubuntu-release-upgrader into wily-proposed. The package will
build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source
/ubuntu-release-upgrader/1:15.10.14.1 in a few hours, and then in the
-proposed repository.
Please help us by testing this
** Description changed:
+ Test Case
+ -
+ 1) Remove the linux-generic package as software-properties does LP: #1506169
+ 2) upgrade from vivid to wily and reboot
+ 3) observe that you are still running the vivid (3.19.0) kernel
+
+ One could also confirm that
