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update-manager package

  1. Bug #289952
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 289952

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Ted Cabeen (ted-cabeen) wrote : Re: [8.10] update-manager ignores sources.list during hardy->intrepid upgrade

It wasn't that any data was overwritten, it's that the file was completely ignored. Although I have a local mirror and I usually download my updates from mirrors.kernel.org, the intrepid updater didn't recognize either of them and downloaded all of the updates I needed from archive.ubuntu.com. After the upgrade was complete, my sources.list file had all of my lines commented out, and the only active entry was the archive.ubuntu.com that the updater used.

According to a chat I had with nemo in #ubuntu+1, that's intended behavior. I think that this configuration is ill-advised with thousands of people expecting to upgrade to intrepid in the coming days. Here's the chat log from http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2008/10/27/%23ubuntu+1.txt
[17:11] <TedC> The intrepid upgrader seems to ignore my sources.list and tries to download all of the packages it needs from archive.ubuntu.com. Is that how it's supposed to work?
[17:11] <nemo> TedC: updater does override your source list
[17:11] <nemo> TedC: you can reenable it after