not possible to upgrade from Xenial and jump over an unsupported release
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
|
Brian Murray | ||
Zesty |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Brian Murray |
Bug Description
With the changes to update-manager in bug 1497024 it should be possible to upgrade from Ubuntu 16.04 to 17.04 (provided 16.10 is End of Life). While update-manager will download the zesty.tar.gz file it will not run and will instead say "An upgrade from 'X' to 'Z' is not supported with this tool." This is because ubuntu-
[Test Case]
1) Run do-release-upgrade (notice it download yakkety.tar.gz)
2) Set yakkety to unsupported in ~/.cache/
3) Run do-release-upgrade again (notice it download zesty.tar.gz)
With the dist-upgrader tarball currently available you'll receive an error message about the upgrade path being unsupported. With the version of the dist-upgrader tarball in proposed (accessible by running do-release-upgrade -p and modifying meta-release-
[Regression Potential]
It's possible the upgrade won't work for people, but I'll be watching out for issues and its better than we resolve upgrade issues now rather then when people are upgrading from LTS to LTS.
Related branches
tags: | added: artful dist-upgrade zesty |
Changed in ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
assignee: | nobody → Brian Murray (brian-murray) |
Changed in ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu Zesty): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
assignee: | nobody → Brian Murray (brian-murray) |
Changed in ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu Zesty): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
description: | updated |
summary: |
- not possible to upgrade from Xenial to Zesty + not possible to upgrade from Xenial past and unsupported release |
summary: |
- not possible to upgrade from Xenial past and unsupported release + not possible to upgrade from Xenial past an unsupported release |
summary: |
- not possible to upgrade from Xenial past an unsupported release + not possible to upgrade from Xenial and jump over an unsupported release |
This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu- release- upgrader - 1:17.10.4
--------------- release- upgrader (1:17.10.4) artful; urgency=medium
ubuntu-
* Create demoted.cfg.xenial and DistUpgrade. cfg.xenial so that upgrades from
Ubuntu 16.04 to Ubuntu 17.10 are supported. (LP: #1692092)
-- Brian Murray <email address hidden> Fri, 19 May 2017 14:04:13 -0700