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Hardy doesn't have kernel transitional packages from Dapper

Bug #195212 reported by Neal Bussett
6
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
linux-meta (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Ben Collins

Bug Description

Hardy doesn't include transitional packages to handle the kernel upgrade path from Dapper.
These include linux-* as well as linux-image-* and linux-restricted-modules-*
* contains the arch, as well as some optional warts on the end.

These should point to identically named packages (linux-, linux-image-, linux-r-m-, simply with -generic instead of the arch (or -server), for the architectures that the generic kernel supports.

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/karmic/linux-meta
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Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara) wrote :

Upgrading from Dapper directly to Hardy is not supported. For more information please refer to:

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

Changed in linux:
status: New → Invalid
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Neal Bussett (nealbussett) wrote :

LTS to LTS upgrades are infact supported, this is not an invalid bug.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HardyUpgrades#head-e7f287c730b93116f89de7ea7e05efbe95fa6dd1

As some additional information regarding this bug:

These transitional packages need to be included in the Alternate CD as well, for those without intenet access who are planning on upgrading.

These packages should exist for redundancy (as well as the fact that they just are supposed to be there anyway). In case do-release-upgrade and/or update-manager(-core) fail (or have other bugs associated with them), you'll still be able to upgrade manually and recover the system.

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Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara) wrote :

Hi Neal,

My apologies, I was misinformed. I've gone ahead and opened this back up and have assigned to the kernel team. Thanks!

Changed in linux:
assignee: nobody → ubuntu-kernel-team
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Invalid → Triaged
importance: Medium → High
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Ben Collins (ben-collins) wrote :

Packages committed to linux-meta to facilitate the upgrade path.

Changed in linux:
assignee: ubuntu-kernel-team → ben-collins
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package linux-meta - 2.6.24.12.12

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linux-meta (2.6.24.12.12) hardy; urgency=low

  * Add dapper upgrade meta packages for 686, k7,
    amd64-{generic,server,k8,xeon}
    LP: #195212

 -- Ben Collins <email address hidden> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:22:34 -0400

Changed in linux-meta:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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