[conspire] New Ubuntu Hardy Heron, version 8.04.1

[Mark Weisler]

On Wednesday 09 July 2008 04:11:23 Nick Moffitt wrote:
> David Fox:
> > I'm currently on 8.04 (although there've been a large number of
> > updates in the recent weeks, very little now) and it's been working
> > just fine with my new hardware - ubuntu 8.04 installed, but with extra
> > stuff including a fairly recent 4.1 beta KDE desktop (looks nice), new
> > amarok (still has issues), etc.
>
> I'm willing to bet that you are now on 8.04.1 and didn't even realize
> it!  Take a look at /etc/lsb-release on your system.  Here's mine:
>
> 	DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
> 	DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
> 	DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
> 	DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.04.1"
>
> 8.04.1 is still Hardy, so tracking hardy will get you the new point
> version.
>
> The interesting thing is that now direct upgrades from Dapper are
> advertised and supported, so you can just "sudo do-release-upgrade" on
> your Dapper servers, and Dapper desktop upgrades will go straight to
> Hardy instead of going to the now-unsupported Edgy release.

You're right Nick. An apt-get upgrade will take a computer from 8.04 to 
8.04.1...

root at bb:~# date
Wed Jul  9 07:55:53 PDT 2008
root at bb:~# cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.04"
root at bb:~# apt-get update
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security Release.gpg
....
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/multiverse Sources
Reading package lists... Done
root at bb:~# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       ...
...time passes with activity...then...
root at bb:~# cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.04.1"
root at bb:~# date
Wed Jul  9 08:08:38 PDT 2008


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Mark Weisler 
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