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update-manager package

  1. Bug #54234
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 54234

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote : Re: [Bug 54234] Re: update-manager for edgy needs to upgrade dpkg/apt before calculating the upgrade to support the new "breaks" - otherwise the upgrade may fail

On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 11:12:04PM -0000, Michael Vogt wrote:
> 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)

I don't like the idea of relying on dapper-backports for this; I think we
should ship the upgrader complete and independent of any external packages.

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 - mdz