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update-manager package

  1. Bug #894396
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 894396

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Aapo Rantalainen (aapo-rantalainen) wrote :

I think your posts are not correct.
a) apt-get doesn't have 'dist-update'
It has 'dist-upgrade'
b) According to the 'man apt-get' dist-upgrade is not about distro update, but "also intelligently handles changing dependencies with new versions of packages"
(Or do you mean changing /etc/apt/sources.list by hands?)

c) do-release-upgrade -d
-d, --devel-release
              Check if upgrading to the latest devel release is possible
Is not what I'm asked.

If I'm on Lucid (with Prompt=lts on /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades) and run 'do-release-upgrade -d' it will upgrade to the next LTS which is Precise. I asked upgrading from Lucid to the Maverick, which only needs changing Prompt=normal.

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I'm saying: It is simple task, but it is not covered on man-page, there are not even hint about that file /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades affects for 'do-release-upgrade'.