Thursday, February 9, 2017

Changing the repository to upgrade

For upgrading a release (e.g. from Quantal to Raring), apt-get dist-upgrade does work. I wonder what happens if simply changing the repository (e.g. from Quantal to Raring) then utilizing normal apt-get update and apt-get upgrade?


Changing


deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal main
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal main

to


deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring main
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring main

then


apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

Can this method actually upgrade to the latest release of ubuntu?


I am curious what happens by this approach.

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