There isn't a way to upgrade between OS releases [$55]

[Amelia Rose Khan]

danrabbit from IRC offered the information below:

As far as I know there are a few issues.

Update manager disables ppas during upgrades. So since we're using ppas it wouldn't work.

It would need to be patched to used lsb_release -u so that it sets the repos to "trusty" and not "freya" (which doesn't exist)

Lewis Goddard: If we were to patch the update manager in Luna, it would be do-able, but there could be a lot of other issues we haven't even seen because it hasn't been done yet.

[Lewis Goddard (lewisgoddard)]

I think Launchpad will auto-confirm this soon since I clicked "affects me too".

[nucc1 (nucc1)]

There seems to be no bounty source link for this bug

[ceg (ceg)]

Maybe release upgrades could work if sources.list points to some elementary.io server that redirects to launchpad servers.

This could prevent the package sources from being automatically deactivated like launchpad PPA repositories when doing a release upgrade.

If this works, it could also allow updating freya installations to loki by editing the sources.list.

[ceg (ceg)]

In case you are looking for a more broader solution that brings among other things also systematic, continious package building and testing, there is another option.

Have the elementary OS packages build with the http://tanglu.org/faq infrastructure. This debian distribution project has now implemented the most advanced community package build system to and repository creation. They have expressed that are willing to support additional desktop environments and would help you getting up to speed.

It works like this: New source packages versions are uploaded to Debian experimental and propagate to testing and stable there (or directly to tanglu during debian freezes), but the tanglu infrastructure is able to manage custom releases.

[ceg (ceg)]

If you'd like your own build system and package repositories, elementery os would be a welcomed member in the tanglu community "...the direction Tanglu takes should be decided by people who develop it, and Tanglu should be as inclusive as possible - in case something can't be realized in the main branch, e.g. because it is only useful for a small target audience, we can always offer a spin of Tanglu." https://tangluusers.org/thread/tanglu-3-efi-install-46/

[hotovo (hotovo)]

Hi :) does the change of milestone mean this won't be implemented in the loki? If so will there be way how to upgrade system somehow else? I am using Freya in my professional laptop, which would take too much to set up (I have multiple projects for clients which have to run and might take days to setup properly)