What is wrong with updating sources.list and simnply doing apt-get dist-upgrade?
On 3/1/09, Ante Karamatić <iv...@grad.hr> wrote: > U Ned, 01. 03. 2009., u 02:36 +0100, Sebastien Estienne je napisao/la: > >> why not just patching the python code of do-release-upgrade to >> skip/modify the part of the code that is wrong? > > If locales would support locale named 'old-releases.', then exporting > LANG="old-releases." and running do-release-upgrade would almost do the > trick :) > > Basically, update-manager is fine. The tar.gz archive, downloaded from > archive mirror should be fixed. It contains semi hard coded source > mirror. It looks at locale settings to decide what to prepend to > archive.ubuntu.com. Since, old-releases isn't part of archive, but has > separate URL old-releases.archive.ubuntu.com, a bit more tweaking is > needed. It's actually quite easy, as I've described in answer to Sean's > post. > > If upgrades from EOL releases to supported releases is something we > should opt for (and I think we should, since obviously, there's a need > for that), fix to those tar.gz is needed. > > > -- > ubuntu-server mailing list > ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server > More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam > -- http://ls.net http://drupal.ls.net -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
