[Scottish] FAO

[Alan Pope]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 09:53:14AM +0000, Kyle Gordon wrote:
> William Anderson wrote:
> > babaguy wrote:
> >   
> >>  Thanks J.R. !  I *think* the system has updated itself to Edgy
> >> [snip]
> >>     
> >
> > It could only have done that if you'd commanded it to do so, after
> > changing the repository settings in the update manager, synaptic or
> > /etc/apt/sources.list - it definitely won't have done that magically :)
> >   
> If memory serves, update-manager will automatically detect when a new
> version has been released, and prompt the user with a big shiny button
> to begin the upgrade process.
> 

Your memory is failing :)

You only get the prompt to upgrade to a newer release (e.g. Dapper --> 
Edgy) if you run update manager with "-c". See the following page for 
details.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EdgyUpgrades

If you just run update manager on a regular basis and hit the button 
when it tells you to upgrade then you will only ever do the equivalent 
of "apt-get/aptitude update && apt-get/aptitude upgrade || 
apt-get/aptitude dist-upgrade", but your sources.list wont be touched.  

> I'd hazard a guess and say that's what happened...
> 

Given the above I would suspect not.

Cheers,
Al.