update-manager upgrade volume detector needs to perform more checks

[James Hunt]

Binary package hint: update-manager

Currently, if you were to write an ubuntu image to a USB disk using USB creator, when the process completes, a window entitled, "Upgrade Volume Detected" pops up saying:

A distribution volume with software packages has been detected.

Would you like to try to upgrade from it automatically?

This is potentially helpful, but also potentially dangerous since if the user were running natty and for example writing a maverick image, the same box pops up asking if you want to "upgrade"... to maverick.

Maybe a check could be performed to see if the upgrade volume is newer in some way than the installed system?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.150
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic-pae 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Apr 28 11:00:35 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-23 (4 days ago)

[RedSingularity (redsingularity)]

Does this pop up every time you insert the usb stick into the system running natty?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[qji (qji)]

It seems a bit dangerous... I get the same popup on 12.04 when I pluged in a 10.04 USB installer. I don't know what heppens if somebody press the Yes button...

[dino99 (9d9)]

That version is no more maintained