jamieflournoy
05-11-2007, 12:38 AM
Just for everybody's info who is running (or thinking of running) Ubuntu and is wondering about the recent April 2007 release (a.k.a. 7.04 "Feisty Fawn"):
I did the upgrade on test servers a couple of weeks ago and followed up today by upgrading my VPS installation. No problems except for the usual merging of my changes w/ distro changes in config files.
I did it the command-line way:
1) search-n-replace "edgy" with "feisty" in /etc/apt/sources.list
2) apt-get update
3) apt-get dist-upgrade
4) reboot
Step 3 involved about a half dozen instances of saying "no" to new config files and keeping a log of what I still need to hand-merge. Since dpkg (the thing that apt uses to manage individual package installations) will just put the new file at /path/to/file.dpg-dist instead of /path/to/file when you tell it "no", it's not hard to find the files and do the merge manually.
Hope this helps...
I did the upgrade on test servers a couple of weeks ago and followed up today by upgrading my VPS installation. No problems except for the usual merging of my changes w/ distro changes in config files.
I did it the command-line way:
1) search-n-replace "edgy" with "feisty" in /etc/apt/sources.list
2) apt-get update
3) apt-get dist-upgrade
4) reboot
Step 3 involved about a half dozen instances of saying "no" to new config files and keeping a log of what I still need to hand-merge. Since dpkg (the thing that apt uses to manage individual package installations) will just put the new file at /path/to/file.dpg-dist instead of /path/to/file when you tell it "no", it's not hard to find the files and do the merge manually.
Hope this helps...