EOL release and old-releases.ubuntu.com migration

[Michael Vogt]

Binary package hint: update-manager

When a release is end-of-live it moves to old-releases.ubuntu.com

Update-manager should be able to gracefully handle this. Here is what is required:
1. when the sources.list points to old-releases.ubuntu.com check if the upgrade goes to archive.u.c or old-releases.u.c
2. if the user is running a EOL release and has not swtiched the sources.list to old-releases.u.c detect that
3. if the user is using a mirror that has dropped a older release but archive.u.c still has it, switch to archive.u.c

[mjern92 (mjern92)]

Is there a work around for this bug for a 7.10 to 8.04 upgrade?
I posted a comment on bug 264181, but since it is marked fixed, I didn't know if it would be read.

[Andy B (fool4kate)]

If this is the same bug that I have been encountering, it occurs because the http://localhost/meta-release file is not getting updated with the correct url. For example the line

>Release-File: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty/Release

should be

>Release-File: http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty/Release

This is also true for 7.10 and 8.10

I created a copy of the file, modified it and dropped it on a local server. It seems to be working okay now.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

Possibly it should support multiple release files and try one after the other.