[Fwd: Re: [Charlug] Upgrading old Ubuntu]

[Pierre Abbat]

> Pierre, if my assumption is wrong and you really do need to mix
> repositories, I suggest you contact Peter directly for some expert help :-)

I don't. I'm just trying to figure out what happens if I install a package 
with sources.list set like this. I might will (might would? may would?) need 
backports, though.

> I agree. The problem with dist-upgrades is that conflicts are more likely
> than a regular upgrade: some packages from the previous repository may have
> been phased out in favor of other packages in the newer repository. For
> some such packages there may be more than one upgrade path. Although it is
> not perfect, aptitude does a much better job over apt-get in evaluating the
> different upgrade paths, defaulting to the "best" path, and giving you a
> way to choose an alternate upgrade path.

I'm not very familiar with aptitude; most of my package management I do with 
adept, and if it crashes I use apt-get. How would I upgrade with aptitude? 
And what exactly is do-release-upgrade doing?

By the way, could you use "reply to list" instead of "reply to all"? For some 
reason, if charlug is in CC: instead of To:, I don't get a copy through the 
list.

Pierre