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List:       centos
Subject:    Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense
From:       Lamar Owen <lowen () pari ! edu>
Date:       2011-09-26 10:40:42
Message-ID: 201109260640.42273.lowen () pari ! edu
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On Saturday, September 24, 2011 06:34:15 AM Christopher Chan wrote:
> Ah...you're supposed to use do-release-upgrade and not 'apt dist-upgrade'

If that is what is called by the gui distribution upgrade button, it has done similar \
things to a few installs I have had to repair.

> Ubuntu ain't Debian. It's something worse and requires uber hacks to get 
> around crap. Them uber hacks are loaded in do-release-upgrade.

Been there, broke that.

> Pound Ubuntu properly pal. Giving examples of unsupported processes 
> ain't pounding it properly.

TMTOWTDI.

If it's not supported it shouldn't be enabled and easily (ab)used.  This is part of \
the reason you have to add a boot argument to get CentOS to do a version upgrade; \
it's known to not work properly, and thus is semi-hidden. \
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