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update-manager package

  1. Bug #54234
  2. Comment #12

Comment 12 for bug 54234

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote : Re: update-manager for edgy needs to upgrade dpkg/apt before calculating the upgrade to support the new "breaks" - otherwise the upgrade may fail

Here is the current status for this bug:
- a new version of the dist-upgrader is uploaded. it supports fetching of selected backports from arbitrary sources.list fragments (e.g. dapper-backports)
- it will get and unpack those packages into a tempdir and modify PATH,LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PYTHONPATH to make sure that the updated versions are used
- it will re-exec itself once the update is fetched to support the new libraries
- it will still work with --cdrom, even if no updates are found on the cdrom if a network is used

Still todo:
1. get the backports into the official dapper-backports
2. add the backports to the CD
3. make dist-upgrader look for the backports on CD first (to support upgrades without network)