update-manager rewrites sources.list to only use official mirrors
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Release Notes for Ubuntu | ||||||
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Fix Released
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Ubuntu |
Fix Released
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Medium
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update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: update-manager
When upgrading from hardy to intrepid, update-manager ignores the local sources.list and downloads everything needed from archive.ubuntu.org. This is problematic for multiple reasons.
1. Some users may have a local or regional mirror that provides faster downloads than archive. Ignoring sources.list prevents them from using those local mirrors, possibly causing substantial bandwidth costs.2. During the initial release window for intrepid thousands of Ubuntu users are going to upgrade. Will archive be able to handle the demand?
3. When upgrading multiple machines in a laboratory or corporate environment, each machine will download all the packages they need from archive, rather than allowing a single download via the use of apt-proxy or other related proxy systems.
Please re-consider this policy decision.
WORKAROUND:
It is possible to disable this check - in DistUpgradeCont
# skip mirror check if special environment is set
# (useful for server admins with internal repos)
if (self.config.
description: | updated |
summary: |
- [8.10] update-manager ignores sources.list during hardy->intrepid - upgrade + update-manager rewrites sources.list to only use official mirrors |
description: | updated |
Changed in ubuntu-release-notes: | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Changed in ubuntu-release-notes: | |
status: | New → Invalid |
Changed in ubuntu-release-notes: | |
status: | Invalid → Fix Released |
affects: | ubuntu-release-notes → ubuntu |
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Released |
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please provide some information about what source was overwritten in your 'sources.list' file? (Ideally, the whole soruces.list file that you were using would be best.) This doesn't normally happen. Thanks in advance.