For a long time, I used to use Fedora exclusively. The cleaner more
user friendly Ubuntu desktop has been much better for me as a consultant
in every way sans one. Remote update between versions.
Here is how I would do this in Fedora:
First I would go to a server, and dump the contents of the c
I find that Debian is the most consistent through upgrades, if no
strange customisations have been made then "apt-get dist-upgrade" can go
from version to version no problem.
Ubuntu introduces some issues with this that makes the update manager
and metapackages like ubuntu-desktop needed. I have p
hi,
Am Freitag, den 14.09.2007, 10:43 -0600 schrieb Kevin Fries:
> The version upgrade process from one version of Ubuntu to another has
> been troublesome for the most part. I am beginning to trust it less and
> less.
did you use the update-manager way [1] as we recommend for that or plain
apt-
On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 19:20 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> Am Freitag, den 14.09.2007, 10:43 -0600 schrieb Kevin Fries:
> > The version upgrade process from one version of Ubuntu to another has
> > been troublesome for the most part. I am beginning to trust it less and
> > less.
> did you
Chris,
You are right, but the problem is actually at the core of the DEB/APT
system. It will not get fixed any time soon. And for the record, RPM
is not any better, it suffers from the same problem.
The core of the issue stems from the fact that software exists in a
n-dimension matrix. This ma
2007/9/14, Kevin Fries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
The easiest way around the problem is a fresh install. The problem is
> Debian (and thus Ubuntu) does not make this easy. I feel that stealing
> the reinstall procedures from Fedora could resolve this problem without
> resorting to overhauling the APT
On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 12:33 -0600, Kevin Fries wrote:
> Chris,
>
> You are right, but the problem is actually at the core of the DEB/APT
> system. It will not get fixed any time soon. And for the record, RPM
> is not any better, it suffers from the same problem.
>
> The core of the issue stems
Kevin Fries wrote:
> For a long time, I used to use Fedora exclusively. The cleaner more
> user friendly Ubuntu desktop has been much better for me as a consultant
> in every way sans one. Remote update between versions.
>
> Here is how I would do this in Fedora:
> Step nine, I would wait for
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 10:43:32AM -0600, Kevin Fries wrote:
> Here is how I would do this in Fedora:
[... snip a bunch of deep dark Fedora magic ...]
> The version upgrade process from one version of Ubuntu to another has
> been troublesome for the most part.
Are you really serious? "do-release
