Failed ubuntu do-release-upgrade work around?

[Tom Buskey]

I know you can tell both yum and apt that the rpo is a CD.
I'd imagine a dist-upgrade could use that as well.  That would eliminate
the network as a source of issues.


On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Michael Nolin <
mnolin at embedded-unlimited.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Fri May  3 12:01 , Bruce Labitt  sent:
>
> "  It is probably our network $WORK, but I have yet to have anyone be able
> to
> help me."
>
> The do in fact throttle the downloads there, tested it first hand myself.
>
> "Does anyone know where the files are saved for a dist-upgrade that hasn't
> finished?"
>
> I would recommend installing locally downloaded packages using the same
> package
> manager tools.
>  apt-get for Ubuntu? (using OpenSuse these days).  often I find these
> files saved
> in /tmp or /usr/source/packages/SOUCES on an rpm system.  Certainly you
> can point
> gui your package manager to the file.
>
>
> Mike
>
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