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Distribution Upgrade tools for Ubuntu |
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This tool implements the spec at: |
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https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AutomaticUpgrade |
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Broadly speaking a upgrade from one version to the next consists |
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of three things: |
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1) The user must be informed about the new available distro |
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(possibly release notes as well) and run the upgrade tool |
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2) The upgrade tool must be able to download updated information |
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how to perform the upgrade (e.g. additional steps like upgrading |
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certain libs first) |
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3) The upgrade tools runs and installs/remove packages and does |
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some additional steps like post-release cleanup |
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The steps in additon to upgrading the installed packages fall into this |
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categories: |
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* switch to new sources.list entries |
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* adding the default user to new groups (warty, scanner group) |
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* remove packages/install others (breezy, R:mozilla-firefox, RI:firefox, |
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install ubuntu-desktop package again, R:portmap, I:language-package*) |
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* check conffile settings (breezy: /etc/X11/xorg.conf; warty: /etc/modules) |
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* check if {ubuntu,kubuntu,edubuntu}-desktop is installed |
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* ask/change mirrors (breezy) |
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* breezy: install new version of libgtk2.0-0 from hoary-updates, then |
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restart synaptic |
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* reboot |
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The tool need a backported "python-vte" and "python-apt" to work on |
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breezy. |