Yes people should back up their data anyway. Implementing this would be quite complicated it seems to me.
On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 1:08 AM, Xen <l...@xenhideout.nl> wrote: > Βασίλης Κατσαρέλιας schreef op 02-02-2018 17:08: > > Anyway, I just want Ubiquity to feature a cross-distribution >> upgrade/transfer feature. (e.g. upgrade from Ubuntu 14.04 to Lubuntu 16.04, >> upgrade from Kubuntu 16.04 to Xubuntu 17.10) >> > > Honestly this is more a place for an on-system upgrade mechanism as it > already exists, rather than something that would, I think, place undue > burden on Ubiquity. > > I think as it stands Ubiquity would need work on dealing with failure > cases more elegantly before you introduced something that would invite more > failure cases. > > What Colin says is correct about not formatting your root partition, > although it might not be so clear to a user, because it is a rather > "smallish" choice somewhere. > > What Ralph says is also correct; backing up user data (The contents of > your own home directory) can hardly be considered "awful" in the full light > of things. > > So if anything, also speaking as an outsider, this would need to be > improved in a "do-full-upgrade" tool however it would be near impossible to > cater to all cross-variant upgrade situations. > > So Βασίλης, I hope you realize that you would get a huge matrix of what > needs to change where, ie. > > Kubuntu 16.04 Lubuntu 14.04 > > Xubuntu 17.10 X X > > And that it would need a lot of work to separate everything. > > > > > Βασίλης, do you really think that making a backup of your /home/user > directory is not a lot simpler? > > I think what you are suggesting would be a task not even a commercial > entity, or a fully commercial vendor would be happy in undertaking. > > Although technically feasible, in practice it would involve _first > changing to your desired flavour_ and THEN upgrading. > > Or vice versa, but not all at the same time. > > Then the problem becomes simple: how do we change an existing system to a > different flavour? > > I am not sure this is supported, but "cross-distribution upgrade" is > clearly not the first goal. > > If, on the other hand, you just want to reinstall your system, then > Colin's suggestion would suffice, but it is not so clear the installer > would do that. > > So I think that in practice the only real enhancement that would be > quickly needed would be to structure Ubiquity such that this option is > evident to users. > > As to your upgrade, Βασίλης, I am happy you got it done. > > Regards, > > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailm > an/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss >
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