[64studio-devel] Final 2.1 upgrade tests

[Free Ekanayaka]

Hi Daniel,

|--==> Daniel James writes:

  DJ> Hi Free,
  DJ> I decided to test upgrading a clean install of 2.0 amd64 to 2.1 using
  DJ> only Synaptic and mirrorservice.org. It worked fine, with the
  DJ> following notes...

  DJ> 1. ardour, ktoon, and I think qsampler were held back in the first
  DJ> mark all upgrades'.

  DJ> 2. ktoon and whatever other Qt app it was got upgraded on the second
  DJ> pass, I guess because they needed a newer Qt4 package.

  DJ> 3. ardour only gets upgraded to 2.4 if you mark it manually, because
  DJ> the fftw3 package needs to be replaced.

  DJ> 4. There was a question about restarting libssl services, no big deal.

  DJ> 5. There's a question about replacing the contents of 64studio.list,
  DJ> again no big deal because either keep or replace is fine. Keep is the
  DJ> correct answer for people using an apt mirror, because the default
  DJ> file specifies the main apt.64studio.com server.

  DJ> All in all, I was really pleased with how smoothly it went :-)

Thanks for the detailed report. I expect many people to have non-pure
64 Studio 2.0 at this time, but of course testing clean 2.0 -> 2.1 is
actually the only thing we can support.

  DJ> By the way, I've updated the readme files on the rsync feed, as some
  DJ> were still 2.0 versions.

  DJ> Next I'm going to test the linuxaudio.org mirror with an upgrade from
  DJ> clean 2.0 i386. After that, I think we can issue the press release ;-)

Ok, I've just rebuilt the 2.1 images an APT repo. Please would you
take care of copying them to the directory from where the rsync-ed
mirrors pull the updates?

Ciao,

Free