New Updater Program Needs Testers

[TheFridge]

<p>Michael Vogt has put in a <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2006-January/014700.html">call for testing</a> for the new upgrade tool for Ubuntu. The <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AutomaticUpgrade">general idea</a> is that when a new version of Ubuntu is released, that there should be an easy way to upgrade without manually editing text files. Ruben Vermeersch asked if this tool would be pushed to breezy so that existing users will be able to upgrade to Dapper when it is released; to which Michael replies:</p>
<blockquote><p>Yes, we plan to make it available in breezy-updates for a breezy->dapper upgrade.</p></blockquote>
<p>So if you’re planning on upgrading to Dapper during the development cycle, this is a good way to help test a feature that will no doubt make upgrading to the new hotness very easy. Michael has also posted <a href="http://people.ubuntu.com/~mvo/dist-upgrader/">screenshots</a>.</p>


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[alvinblank]

Currently doing this after some hick-ups. Back-ports are not supported and needs to be remove from the source.list or else the upgrade won't continue.

I'm currently half-way through.

[gravediggers]

Does this cover Zubutu and Xubuntu upgrades as well?

Edit: Meant Kubuntu (not Zubuntu) - it was getting late!!

[nocturn]

Does this cover Zubutu and Xubuntu upgrades as well?

What is Zubuntu?

[Virogenesis]

ubuntu port for the IBM zseries see https://launchpad.net/distros/zubuntu

This would be great for those testing ubuntu inside vmware install breezy then update

[e99swa]

Does it work for 64-bit?

[schmigz]

This is a great addition to Ubuntu. Nice work. I have never had trouble upgrading to a new release, but trying to explain it to people new to Ubuntu has been harder then one would expect. The updater should make it easy for anyone.

[Proleter]

I got the follwing message when I tried to update do dapper.

Error during update

A problem occured during the update. This is usually some sort of network problem, please check your network connection and retry.

Failed to fetch http://ubuntu-backports.mirrormax.ne...86/Packages.gz 404 Not Found
Failed to fetch http://ubuntu-backports.mirrormax.ne...86/Packages.gz 404 Not Found
Failed to fetch http://ubuntu-backports.mirrormax.ne...86/Packages.gz 404 Not Found
Failed to fetch http://ubuntu-backports.mirrormax.ne...86/Packages.gz 404 Not Found

[castrojo]

You need to remove that mirrormax URL from your /etc/apt/sources.list.

[pirast]

Please send you feedback to michael.vogt@ubuntu.com , I'm not sure that he reads in the forums..

Thanks