[Live-demo] Dist-upgrade

[Alex Mandel]

That isn't the issue, I have both. VMWare Server is on my server machine
(headless, much faster and better network connection), I'm not aware of
how to run Virtualbox under such a system yet (I was actually planning
to move to kvm soon). Regardless VMWare Player is common and I was
pointing out the issue in case people thought it important.

The images I build under VMWare Server work fine on Virtualbox, I've
tested that.

And actually the reason why I was doing most of the builds was that my
server was quite fast 2-4 hours per build.

Thanks,
Alex

Massimo Di Stefano wrote:
> On a fresh xubuntu 9.10 installation (32bit) 
> 
> using a regular :
> 
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get upgrade
> 
> all works (regular virgin linux without osgeo live installation)
> 
> the VirtualBox ( .vdi ) disk image in bzip compression has size of 1Gb, 
> 
> what about switch from vmware to more opensource vbox ?
> 
> Alex, i can upload the vbox image to save you from instalation time, if we want give a try to vbox.
> 
> Ciao,
> 
> Massimo.
> 
> 
> Il giorno 12/feb/2010, alle ore 03.39, Alex Mandel ha scritto:
> 
>> Alex Mandel wrote:
>>> Hamish wrote:
>>>> Alex wrote:
>>>>> More in general in setup.sh shouldn't we use apt-get
>>>>> dist-upgrade instead of just upgrade to play it safe?
>>>> don't you mean "apt-get safe-upgrade"  ??
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> dist-upgrade is used to update from 9.10 to 10.04 once it is released. and this generally requires a bit of handholding and
>>>> care so should not be done automatically.
>>>>
>>>> if you need dist-upgrade it indicates that something is broken
>>>> or not fully upgraded from e.g. 8.10 if your setup.
>>>>
>>>> if ubuntu is releasing in-distrib security updates which require
>>>> dist-upgrade to work, well fooey on them.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ?,
>>>> Hamish
>>> To clarify the naming of commands is kind of misleading:
>>> dist-upgrade is not the command on Ubuntu to change from 9.04 to 9.10
>>> (example). It's actually what you would think would be called
>>> smart-upgrade or safe-upgrade. It actually matches the synaptic smart
>>> update option.
>>>
>>> "dist-upgrade
>>>           dist-upgrade in addition to performing the function of
>>> upgrade, also intelligently handles changing dependencies with new
>>> versions of packages; apt-get has a "smart" conflict resolution system,
>>> and it will attempt to upgrade the most important packages at the
>>> expense of less important ones if necessary. The
>>> /etc/apt/sources.list file contains a list of locations from which to
>>> retrieve desired package files. See also apt_preferences(5) for a
>>> mechanism for overriding the general settings for individual
>>> packages."
>>>
>>> safe-upgrade is an aptitude command not an apt command, go figure...
>>>
>>> Alex
>> Note:
>> I realize it might behave the way you suggested if one manually changes
>> the source list to point to the next version of Ubuntu.
>>
>> Alex
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