[Gllug] Ubuntu Maverick upgrade

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On 20 Oct 2010, Christopher Hunter outgrape:
> Ubuntu still haven't quite got the update routine right.  Updating is
> (at best) risky.  I did a complete reinstall, having backed /home up to
> another drive first.  This is slightly more hassle, but is guaranteed to
> work!

I upgrade a savevm'ed QEMU instance with the same package set and
configuration first. It's not foolproof, but at least it points out
major problems in the post-install scripts and that sort of thing before
they bite you for real.
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