do-release-upgrade fails when upgrading from 7.04 to 7.10 due to incorrect depot

[Tomasz Finc]

Binary package hint: update-manager

When upgrading an old box from 7.04->7.10 I hit a snag when running do-release-upgrade. Even though I've set sources.list to pull from the depots mentioned at [https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GutsyUpgrades] , the upgrade tool continuously adds

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-backports main/debian-installer

to

sources.list.d/prerequists-sources.list

which is an invalid depot as 7.04 went EOL from us.archive along with 7.10.

Now I know that were not supporting any new package additions, but not being able to upgrade just because of an old configuration seems silly. Lets either fix it by pointing it to old-releases or state explicitly in the documentation that upgrades are not supported.

root@isidore:/etc/apt# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 7.04
Release: 7.04
Codename: feisty

root@isidore:/etc/apt# apt-cache policy update-manager
update-manager:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1:0.59.25
  Version table:
     1:0.59.25 0
        500 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/main Packages
     1:0.59.20 0
        500 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com feisty/main Packages

[Tomasz Finc (tomasz-gmail)]

Seems like an update to

http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/main/dist-upgrader-all/current/gutsy.tar.gz

with

deb http://old-releases.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-backports main/debian-installer

could do the trick.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Support for old-releases.ubuntu.com was added to Intrepid, the changelog entry for this follows:

update-manager (1:0.91.5) intrepid; urgency=low

  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py:
    - support "old-releases.ubuntu.com" as a valid mirror and
      auto transition from that to the regular archive
      (LP: #235527)