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Re: [DRAFT 2.1] [debathena-announce] End of life announcement for
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Wed Apr 8 15:36:40 2009
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 15:36:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
cc: Greg Price <price@mit.edu>, Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>,
Debathena <debathena@mit.edu>
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OK, I would just have a very clean statement "Upgrading after end of life=
=20
is painful, we recommend doing upgrading now" and using a footnote to give=
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the technical details, if you want to include them at all.
=09-Tim Abbott
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Anders Kaseorg wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Greg Price wrote:
> > > Because Ubuntu typically removes unsupported releases from their apt
> > > repository entirely, you should be sure to upgrade to a newer
> > > release before April 18.
> >=20
> > In draft 1 you said this makes it difficult to upgrade after the
> > date. Is that right? I don't see why, because I'd expect it to be
> > taking packages only from the new release; I guess there's
> > update-manager-core and friends, and I forget if those are always
> > installed.
>=20
> Having gone through the process of upgrading an unsupported feisty machin=
e=20
> to gutsy, I assure you that it is not fun at all. The upgrader needs to=
=20
> download packages from both feisty-backports and gutsy, and there aren=E2=
=80=99t=20
> any mirrors that have them both (feisty-backports is on=20
> old-releases.ubuntu.com). I ended up having to set up my own =E2=80=9Cmi=
rror=E2=80=9D=20
> using an Apache proxy, repointing us.archive.ubuntu.com to it in=20
> /etc/hosts, and switching over the pool/ directory at just the right time=
=20
> during the upgrade process. Do not try this at home.
>=20
> Anders
>=20
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