hoary-updates...what will it be used for ?

[ubuntu_demon]

Hi,

hoary-updates what will it be used for ?

I mean these lines in the sources.list :

## Uncomment after release to continue getting updates:
# deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-updates main restricted

Will it be used for introducing new important features like menu editor ? Or just for important bugfixes ? Or for something like service-packs ? Or.... ?

thnx

[jdodson]

Hi,

hoary-updates what will it be used for ?

I mean these lines in the sources.list :

## Uncomment after release to continue getting updates:
# deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-updates main restricted

Will it be used for introducing new important features like menu editor ? Or just for important bugfixes ? Or for something like service-packs ? Or.... ?

thnx

thats a really good question, any developers want to take a crack at this? i have seen the repository and i have heard some rumblings about something like this in some comments by developers.

[ubuntu_demon]

anyone?

[ubuntu_demon]

*bump*

[steffen]

Alot of users on this forum have asked this question. And many have reported that their sources.list has a problem with hoary-updates not working.

Guess we'll see this start working in a couple of days. But still no-one has been able to tell what the list is for. Is it some sort of "official Ubuntu backports"? I.e. updates to Gaim, OOo, etc. that are not strictly security updates... That's what I would assume.

[ubuntu_demon]

Alot of users on this forum have asked this question. And many have reported that their sources.list has a problem with hoary-updates not working.

Guess we'll see this start working in a couple of days. But still no-one has been able to tell what the list is for. Is it some sort of "official Ubuntu backports"? I.e. updates to Gaim, OOo, etc. that are not strictly security updates... That's what I would assume.
hoary-updates has to be commented untill release.

Maybe it's for bug fixes that don't include new features. But in a sort of service-packs kind of way.

[Patrick]

It says that you uncomment it when there is a release. So i think you uncomment them on wensday at upgrade to the final release

[ubuntu_demon]

It says that you uncomment it when there is a release. So i think you uncomment them on wensday at upgrade to the final release
true
or only after they announce there are upgrades in it (if you want to be careful)

[Patrick]

true
or only after they announce there are upgrades in it (if you want to be careful)

and thats what we want to be :smile:

[daniels]

Various non-security (but critical bugfix) updates to Hoary: only very well-tested stuff. This didn't go through for Warty because it was not enabled in sources by default, but we had the conondrum where we had to put calendar updates into the security repositories (I think) because we didn't have a functional warty-updates. So yeah, just small, well-tested, bug fixes.

[jdong]

A great place to stuff next year's April Fool's joke, right? ;)

[ubuntu_demon]

Various non-security (but critical bugfix) updates to Hoary: only very well-tested stuff. This didn't go through for Warty because it was not enabled in sources by default, but we had the conondrum where we had to put calendar updates into the security repositories (I think) because we didn't have a functional warty-updates. So yeah, just small, well-tested, bug fixes.
sounds good :)

[ubuntu_demon]

I just removed the comments from my sources.list and apt-get update keeps working :)