[Eug-lug] Ubuntu LTS upgrade policy

[B. Gallagher]

I'll wing it and say that means repository.

Brian

P.S. in the future we will have a third brain lobe to support all these 
acronyms and abbreviations.


Robert M. Solovay wrote:
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> On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Quentin Hartman wrote:
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>> 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.
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>     What is a "third party repo"? Perhaps I should just ask: what is a 
> repo?
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>     --Bob Solovay
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