Failed ubuntu do-release-upgrade work around?

[Bruce Labitt]

On 05/05/2013 05:46 PM, Chris Linstid wrote:
> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Bruce Labitt <bdlabitt at gmail.com 
> <mailto:bdlabitt at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Since I have the file in question, where can I stuff this file, so
>     that the installer sees it, and doesn't have to go to the slow
>     repo to get it again.  I think the dist-upgrade saves stuff in
>     /var/log/dist-upgrade
>
>     In main.log the last entries are:
>
>     2013-05-03 10:31:40,603 ERROR IOError in cache.commit(): 'Failed
>     to fetch
>     http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/texlive-extra/texlive-fonts-extra_2009-10ubuntu1_all.deb
>     Connection failed
>     '. Retrying (currentTry: 2)
>     2013-05-03 10:31:40,603 ERROR giving up on fetching after maximum
>     retries
>
>     Does anyone know where the files are saved for a dist-upgrade that
>     hasn't finished?
>
>
> I know that apt-get (under normal circumstances) puts the packages in 
> /var/cache/apt/archives. I think the upgrade process might do the same 
> thing. This post seems to think so as well:
>
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/54681/can-i-make-do-release-upgrade-only-download-packages-for-a-later-upgrade
>
>      - Chris
>
>
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Never did find where stuff for dist-upgrade was stored. Fortunately, I 
was able to run a do-release-upgrade that actually completed.  Thanks 
for everyone's suggestions.

-Bruce
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