upgrade preperations

Tue Mar 23 11:35:20 UTC 2010

Greetings,
I am in the process of making my plan to upgrade to lucid when it is officially released in April.  I am currently using Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and I want to make sure everything is set for the transition to go as smooth as possible.

Some potentially useful background:  I'm using a laptop: duel-booting Ubuntu and Windows XP.  I HAVE Ubuntu split over two partitions (One for / and one for /home).  I maintain regular (monthly) backups of my rootsystem and home directories (each partition gets its own backup).  under the settings for software sources and preferences (found under the administration menu of the top pannel: I don't recall the exact name), I currently have my system set to only upgrade to LTS versions of Ubuntu.

(A) configuration files?
Will my settings in configuration files (I.E. those found in /etc/) remain preserved across the upgrade?  Also will anything I added to ~.bashrc be preserved as well?  Or will I need to re-tweek these files upon upgrade.

(B) custom-builds?
I built the git editions of orca, at-spi and atk for the gnome-2.22 system.  Will apt-get dist-upgrade automatically replace these with the default versions for lucid, or should I uninstall the git-builds and re-install the repository versions?

(C) best upgrade method?
I've been switching from apt-get to aptitude for my package-management uses, but from reading the documentation in man, it looks like apt-get dist-upgrade is the recommended method for upgrading distribution releases from the command-line: is this correct?

(D) anything else?
Are there any other concerns I should be looking at?  Useful tidbits to keep in mind?

Thank you in advance for your assistance:-)
I look forward to getting caught back up with the linux community. 		 	   		  
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