update-manager does not offer option to upgrade to Feisty

[David]

Binary package hint: update-manager

Using update-manager 0.45.3 and with all packages up-to-date in Edgy, update-manager does not offer the ability to upgrade to Feisty.
Apt repositories include include "edgy" and "edgy-updates".

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

Are you behind a proxy? Can you please attach the output of "ls -l ~/.update-manager/meta-release" ?

Thanks,
 Michael

[Nicolas M (nicolas-martin-gmail)]

I have experienced *exactly* the same problem after update to 0.45.3.

Following your advice, I checked the file: ~/.update-manager/meta-release and it was existing.

Then I simply try to delete this file and re-run update-manager
=> The "upgrade to Feisty" banner was back into the upgrade-manager window. This created again the file: ~/.update-manager/meta-release
=> If I re-run update-manager with existing ~/.update-manager/meta-release, the "upgrade to Feisty" banner is *not* present in the upgrade-manager window

FYI, "ls -l ~/.update-manager/meta-release" outputs:
-rw-r--r-- 1 nicolas nicolas 2170 2007-04-21 15:34 /home/nicolas/.update-manager/meta-release

[Nicolas M (nicolas-martin-gmail)]

Just took a deeper look at the source code, file:

 /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/UpdateManager/MetaRelease.py

Add at the end of this file, in the download exception code: self.metarelease_information=f
Otherwise, stays to None after object initialisation, the check() procedure then does not parse() the release file.

The end of this file appears now:

        except urllib2.URLError:
            if os.path.exists(self.METARELEASE_FILE):
                f=open(self.METARELEASE_FILE,"r")
             self.metarelease_information=f

This does the trick for me.

[AlejandroRiveira (ariveira)]

I can confirm that the problem exist

Nicolas M about rm'ing the meta-release
 file workaraund does work...

i have not tried the *.py file madification

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

This should be fixed with the 0.45.4 version of update-manager in edgy-proposed. Please let me know if that works for you.

Thanks,
 Michael

[Nicolas M (nicolas-martin-gmail)]

Yes, it works fine now, every time I run the update manager.

Thanks,
Nicolas

[AlejandroRiveira (ariveira)]

El Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:54:13 -0000
Michael Vogt <email address hidden> escribió:

> Thanks for your bugreport.
>
> This should be fixed with the 0.45.4 version of update-manager in edgy-
> proposed. Please let me know if that works for you.

 It worked just fine thanks (althought i used the alternate cd method
for upgrading)

>
> Thanks,
> Michael

Thank you for your time & work on ubuntu

PS: Sorry for the late answer i have problems with this mail account...