[Scottish] FAO

[Kyle Gordon]

Alan Pope wrote:
> 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.
>   
I stand corrected. Goes to show how much I use update-manager :-)

Kyle