what to do if network connection breaks between an upgrade

[Amedee Van Gasse (ub)]

On Mon, October 4, 2010 17:32, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 4 October 2010 16:15, Amedee Van Gasse (ub) <amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be>
> wrote:
>> Your email just crossed mine.
>> What are these additional code paths? Could you please elaborate on
>> that?
>> It will help to explain why some things are recommended and others are
>> not.
>>
>
> I'm trying to find an article Colin Watson wrote about this, but I'm
> failing. The one example I can give is that update-manager and
> do-release-upgrade both disable 3rd party repositories (in
> /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/* for example)
> before doing the upgrade.
>
> However the benefit of this stuff is that it's open source :)
>
> apt-get source update-manager-core
>
> Have a rummage in ./update-manager-*/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeQuirks.py

Thanks!
I speak a little programmese, so I understand what is going on. It
confirms what I already suspected.