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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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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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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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* 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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* ask/change mirrors (breezy)
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* breezy: install new version of libgtk2.0-0 from hoary-updates, then
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