[Cialug] Jaunty?

[David Champion]

Chris Freeman wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Anthony Jeffries <ajeffri at n0nro.org> wrote:
>   
>> According to the documentation, yes.
>>     
>
> I've upgraded a box from the Spring '04 dist to the Spring '07 (I
> think; it was about 6 versions) dist. However, I will note that
> upgrading (especially across multiple versions) might require you to
> remove or replace some packages as the newer dists deprecate older
> packages (usually in favor of new ones, but not always).
>
> I've had great success with upgrading under Ubuntu, but as the rest of
> your comment suggests, YMMV.
>
> Chris
>   
... therefore, make sure you have a backup of anything important before 
you try to update. Over the many times I've done updates with several 
different distros, I've had all kinds of things break.

-dc