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update-manager package

Update-manager does not try mirrors for dist-upgrader

Bug #107983 reported by Andrew McCarthy
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
update-manager (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Michael Vogt
Ubuntu obsolete-milestone

Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

When upgrading to a new release (in this case, Edgy to Feisty), the update manager retrieves the dist-upgrade tool from archive.ubuntu.com, even though the local mirror (xx.archive.ubuntu.com) may also have the tool available. The URL used appears to be taken from the meta-release file. I suggest that the update-manager attempt to identify and use a local mirror, and fall back to the original source if it fails.

Michael Vogt (mvo)
Changed in update-manager:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Andrew McCarthy (andrewmccarthy) wrote :

I was thinking again about this. Would it make sense to simply package up dist-upgrader and retrieve it as a normal package? No special-case handling would then be necessary. This would also help in the case where an upgrade aborts and has to be restarted; currently that requires re-downloading dist-upgrader.

Michael Vogt (mvo)
Changed in update-manager:
assignee: nobody → mvo
Michael Vogt (mvo)
Changed in update-manager:
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package update-manager - 1:0.97

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update-manager (1:0.97) jaunty; urgency=low

  * UpdateManager/Core/MetaRelease.py:
    - remove debug message (LP: #310046)
  * UpdateManager/Common/utils.py:
    - when initializing the proxy configuration, do in this
      order:
      * check apt setting
      * check synaptic setting
      * check users gconf
      * check http_proxy environment
    (LP: #24250)
  * UpdateManager/Core/DistUpgradeFetcherCore.py:
    - ensure correct error message if downloading failed
      (LP: #113658)
    - when fetching from mirrors, add fallback if the mirror
      is too loaded to cope
    - improve logic that detects what mirror is in use by
      sources.list inspection (LP: #107983)
  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeMain.py, dist-upgrade.py:
    - re-factor and make code more modular
    - do not overwrite existing log files on upgrade
      (LP: #111819)
  * reorganize the imports and get rid of "Common" submodule
    and merge that all into "Core"
  * improve the debug output via the "DEBUG_UPDATE_MANAGER"
    environment

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:26:40 +0100

Changed in update-manager:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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