Business Desktop proposal, Any takers???

[Darryl Moore]

apt-get dist-upgrade is the commandline equivalent of "do-release-upgrade"

You are right though the OS will magically know which new distribution
to upgrade to, and I expect you're right that it will be because to only
other possible option simply will not be in the repos.

You are also right that it appear the next LTS will be 10.04.

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/146

Now this leaves me with a bit of a dilemma.

If I role out 8.04 there will be no issue of upgrade path. However 8.04
has a few quirks. (Getting LDAP working was a bit more of a pain, for
example) it would be nice to have a nice shiny new OS with fewer issues.

The other option I have, since I honestly don't think I'm going to get
all this pulled together in much less than 4 months, (unless a bunch of
you guys chip in) is to do all my development on 9.04 then wait for 9.10
and port all my work quickly to that, THEN start my own release cycle.

My customers would get a nice shiny new 9.10 OS, then the following year
they would get an upgrade to 10.04, at which point things would settle
down a bit for me as I could switch to a 5 year upgrade cycle. The extra
work for me wouldn't be too great as I don't honestly expect I'd get a
huge number of customers in the first 6 months that I'd have to do
distribution upgrades on right away.

Many of my configuration scripts have OS specific code already. I'll
ponder this one for a while.

cheers,
darryl


Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Darryl Moore <darryl at moores.ca> wrote:
>
>   
>> I was wondering about the ability to upgrade from LTS to LTS directly.
>> How does that work? When you run apt-get dist-upgrade, how does it know
>> you want to upgrade to 10.10 and not 8.10?
>>     
>
> generally you are supposed to use the upgrade manager (or it's
> command-line equivalent "do-release-upgrade") to do upgrades since it
> is supposed to have a bit of special code to deal with some upgrade
> situations that apt-get dist-upgrade may not know.   By the time the
> next LTS is available (let's assume 10.04), I think 8.10 will already
> be EOLed, so the only valid upgrade from 8.04 will be 10.04,
> lts-to-lts.
>
>
>   

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