Why Upgrade? Getting tired...

[SteveRiley]

Yeah, it seems that for releases under development, packages exist only in the release and proposed pockets. The backports, security, and updates pockets are all empty. Makes sense.

[Snowhog]

Hmm. Okay, for sniggles 'n grins, I added the repository to my other laptop and after the cache refreshed, checked to see what would be changed with a dist-upgrade:

The following packages will be REMOVED:  chromium-codecs-ffmpeg ghostscript-cups intel-linux-graphics-installer libharfbuzz0 libpackagekit-glib2-14 libpam-xdg-support libsnmp15 libwayland0 python-uno
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  about-distro apparmor-easyprof chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra cpp-4.8 cups-server-common debugedit dh-python ethtool fonts-dejavu-core gcc-4.8 gcc-4.8-base gcr
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  libisc95 libisl10 libjson-c2 liblightdm-qt-3-0 libllvm3.3 liblua5.2-0 libmodemmanagerqt0 libmpc3 libnet-smtp-ssl-perl libnetworkmanagerqt0 liboath0
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  systemd-services systemd-shim ubuntu-sso-client user-manager
The following packages have been kept back:
  python-qt4 python-sip python3-pyqt4 python3-sip synergy
The following packages will be upgraded:
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1174 upgraded, 112 newly installed, 9 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 875 MB of archives.

Does this look 'correct'?

[SteveRiley]

If you're really curious, you might want to spelunk through Aptitude and find out why this is happening:

The following packages have been kept back:
  python-qt4 python-sip python3-pyqt4 python3-sip synergy

Or you could just let 'er rip!

Once it's finished, you could remove all the raring entries -- well, maybe not Rog131's, unless he's building for Saucy now, too. If he is, then just change the release name.

[Snowhog]

Yup, Rog131 is building for Saucy, so I could change that ppa entry to saucy. I'll have to give this some thought.

[SteveRiley]

If you comment out all the raring entries and have only two for saucy -- main restricted universe multiverse and Rog131's -- how does the dist-upgrade output differ after refreshing the cache?

[GreyGeek]

Geez, feels like I've wandered into old-fart land here. I'm gonna stomp on all y'all's lawns!

Well, Steve, you do know, don't you, that inside every middle aged man is an old-fart struggling to get out! If he makes it consider yourself lucky. As far as the lawn is concerned, go ahead. I don't have to mess with my yard, that's what part of my rent is for.

With old-fartednes comes another attribute -- laziness. I'm staying with LTS because I am too lazy to go through the upgrade routine every six months. It gives me more time to play Minecraft with my grandsons. This weekend we are going to build an XP spawner.

[richb]

Upgrades are the only thing, (well maybe a couple others), that keep my mind from atrophying.

[Snowhog]

If you comment out all the raring entries and have only two for saucy -- main restricted universe multiverse and Rog131's -- how does the dist-upgrade output differ after refreshing the cache?

The following packages will be REMOVED:  chromium-codecs-ffmpeg ghostscript-cups intel-linux-graphics-installer libharfbuzz0 libpackagekit-glib2-14 libpam-xdg-support libsnmp15 libwayland0 python-uno
The following NEW packages will be installed:
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[SteveRiley]

Same as before. So...gonna do it?

[Snowhog]

Not sure. It isn't my main laptop, so I don't really have anything to risk if I do. I guess that I need more information on this Kubuntu-rolling-release concept. IF I include the two saucy repos along with the existing raring repos, at what point do I HAVE to change the raring repos to saucy? What I DON'T want to do is muck up the 'rock solid' distro I already have. I know that as a 'general' rule, it isn't a good idea to have mixed distro repositories.

[tek_heretik]

What I DON'T want to do is muck up the 'rock solid' distro I already have.

Yes...no...I mean...sorry to chime in guys but now you're scaring me, please tell me the 'latest and greatest' releases will be separate from the LTS bloodline, puh-leeeeeeeeeeze.

[SteveRiley]

My read of Kubicle's suggestion is that you can always stay "rolling" by having only the single repo line for whatever the current development pocket is. Right now, that's:

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy main restricted universe multiverse

You could go super-bleeding-edge and add the proposed pocket:

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy-proposed main restricted universe multiverse

Because all development takes place in these two pockets, you won't need anything else. The backports, security, and updates pockets start accumulating packages only after a release is finished and declared generally available.

In this interesting rolling model, you would actually not make any changes to your /etc/apt/sources.list until development opens for the next version. Once that happens, you will change the word saucy to whatever the name is for the next version and then perform a dist-upgrade.

This is a fascinating concept, one which I plan to try myself.

[SteveRiley]

Yes...no...I mean...sorry to chime in guys but now you're scaring me, please tell me the 'latest and greatest' releases will be separate from the LTS bloodline, puh-leeeeeeeeeeze.

We are discussing an idea that allows for a continuously-updated installation. The trade-off is greater risk of breakage. I would not suggest this idea to the average user who isn't interesting in fixing the occasional breakage that could result.

[tek_heretik]

We are discussing an idea that allows for a continuously-updated installation. The trade-off is greater risk of breakage. I would not suggest this idea to the average user who isn't interesting in fixing the occasional breakage that could result.

I know exactly what you are discussing, but you didn't answer my question, will the LTS branch, tree, whatever you want to call it get dragged in to this or will it be a separate thing/option?

[SteveRiley]

I know exactly what you are discussing, but you didn't answer my question, will the LTS branch, tree, whatever you want to call it get dragged in to this or will it be a separate thing/option?

Your question implies that you might not truly understand what we're discussing. We are considering how to continually change where installed binaries are coming from. Essentially, the method under investigation here results in a machine that always and only contains packages from whatever the current development version is. This in no way changes the definition of LTS or how an LTS-built machine will behave. If you have installed an LTS version, and you make no changes to your /etc/apt/sources.list file, then nothing that we're discussing here will affect you.