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Config/Profiles:
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* add include directive (or something like this)
CDROM:
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* release notes display in CDROM mode
* if run from CDROM and we have network -> do a self update
* support dapper-commercial in sources.list rewriting
* after "no-network" dist-upgrade it is most likely that the system
is only half-upgraded and ubuntu-release-upgrader will not be able to do
the full upgrade. ubuntu-release-upgrader needs to be changed to support
full dist-upgrades (possible by just calling the dist-upgrader
in a special mode)
Misc:
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* [fabbio]: we probably don't want to remove stuff that moved from main
to universe (if the user has only main enabled this is considered
obsolete). It would also be nice inform about packages that went from
main->universe. We could ship a list of demotions.
* set bigger timeout than 120s?
breezy->dapper
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- gnome-icon-theme changes a lot, icons move from hicolor to gnome.
this might have caused a specatular crash during a upgrade
hoary->breezy
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- stop gnome-volume-manager before the hoary->breezy upgrade
(it will crash otherwise)
- send a "\n" on the libc6 question on hoary->breezy
general
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- whitelist removal (pattern? e.g. c102 -> c2a etc) and not
display it?
Robustness:
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- automatically comment out entires in the sources.list that fail to
fetch.
Trouble: apt doesn't provide a method to map from a line in th
sources.list to the indexFile and python-apt dosn't proivde a way to
get all the metaIndexes in sources.list, nor a way to get the
pkgIndexFiles from the metaIndexes (metaIndex is not available in
python-apt at all)
What we could do is to write DistUpgradeCache.update(), check the
DescURI for each failed item and guess from it what sources.list
line failed (e.g. uri.endswith("Sources{.bz2|.gz") -> deb-src, get
base-uri, find 'dists' in uri etc)
- don't stop if a single pkg fails to upgrade:
- the problem here is apt, in apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc it will stop if
dpkg returns a non-zero exit code. The problem with this is of course
that this may happen in the middle of the upgrade, leaving half the
packages unpacked but not configured or loads of packages unconfigured.
One possible solution is to not stop in apt but try to continue as long
as possible. The problem here is that e.g. if libnoitfy0 explodes and
evolution, update-notifer depend on it, continuing means to evo and u-n
can't be upgraded and dpkg explodes on them too. This is not more worse
than what we have right now I guess.
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