[Wolves] "New distrobution release '8.04' is avalible?" ?!

Kevanf1 kevanf1 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 27 10:15:36 GMT 2007


On 27/11/2007, Dave Morley <davmor2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 23:17 +0000, Rob Parker wrote:
> > It's no problem, but just funny, I'm running a pretty fresh install of
> > 7.10 on my laptop (although I did keep my /home partition which was
> > previously part of an Ubuntu install that went 6.06, 6.10, 7.04
> > pre-release, 7.04, 7.10 pre-realase, 7.10 via upgrades), and now
> > update-manager's telling me 8.04 (hard heron) is available, even though
> > the Hardy release cycle must have only just started a month ago.
> >
> > I know that update-manager can be 'tricked' into upgrading into a new
> > versions via changing some update-manager-core file, as that's how I
> > upgraded to 7.10 pre-release in my previous install. But I haven't
> > touched this file and have no hardy repos in my sources.list
> > (attached).
> > Just wondering whether anyone else is encountering it, or whether it
> > could be to could be to do with update-manager files in old dot folders
> > in my home directory.
> >
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> Report it as a bug if it isn't already :)
>

Don't bother.  It is known.  It's a bug and I reported it together
with thousands of others only a day or two after 7.10 was officially
released.  It happens with Kubuntu as well as Ubuntu.  I presume the
same is true of Xubuntu and the other variants.
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Kevan Farmer
Linux user #373362
Staffordshire



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