[Eug-lug] Ubuntu LTS upgrade policy

[Quentin Hartman]

I keep hearing these horror stories of going from dapper to edgy. I've
upgraded at least a dozen installations from d->e and not one went sideways.
All of them were "desktop" installations with the usual mess of binary
drivers, restrictced codecs, etc. I think the key is not to use third-party
repos and ugly hacks like automatix. They may make things "easier", but I
have yet to see one that is put together by someone who knows what they are
doing well enough to not cause serious breakage in other areas.

On 3/15/07, Garl Grigsby <badd_karma at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
> > I'm 0.5 for three with upgrading Dapper to Edgy.  Two of them failed
> > so completely that I had to wipe, install, and restore backups.  The
> > third one is broken in small ways*, but it boots, and I haven't had
> > time to reinstall.
> See that surprises me. I have one system that went from 5.10, to 6.06,
> and last week to 6.10 with only a few problems. I had binary video
> drivers installed on 5.10 and the machine wasn't happy with the upgrade
> (had to boot into safe mode and switch back to the nv driver). After
> that I learned my lesson. Revert to the default driver(s) before
> upgrading. Other than that, and having to reinstall a couple of
> packages, everything seems to work. It took a while (hours) to download
> all the packages, but it did work. Now this is on my kids desktop
> machine, so maybe it was simpler that most, but it did work.
>
> Garl
>
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-Regards-

-Quentin Hartman-
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