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Binary package hint: update-manager

I am upgrading to lucid (alpha): update-manager -d.

0) It is not posssible to mark, cut and paste text form the "Distribution Upgrade" dialogue box (to paste it to a bug report without typo mistakes).

1) Phase "Setting new software channels" took some minutes but the "Terminal" arrow in bottom was disabled so the user did not know what was going on. There should be a possibility to view details, e.g. "backuping /etc/apt/sources.list", "replacing 'karmic' for 'lucid' in /etc/apt/sources.list", etc.

2) Phase "Getting new packages" has the "Terminal" arrow also disabled! There should be possibility to view which package is just downloaded. There should also be a possibility to save (complete) list of needed packages (or to generate a wget script) for download them on a computer with higher download sped. There should also be an easy possibility (e.g. button) to let the update-manager use such downloaded packages on usb stick, cd/dvd-rom, (un)mounted iso image.

3) The update manager should ask for an occasional alternative source than the Internet such as usb stick, cd/dvd-rom, (un)mounted iso image with packages so the user must not burn the downloaded image or to mount the image and mainly search for how to run the upgrade from the mounted image (cdromupgrade). There should be also a command line option for using local stored packages/images (like --scan in jigdo-lite).

4) The cdromupgrade should ask about to download packages from the Internet and do a (partial) upgrade in case of negative answer. It asks for newest packages but still downloads other packages from the Internet when negative answer.

5) There is a problem with "incompatible stripping characters" in cdromupgrade:

root@hajajov:/mnt/lucid-dvd# ./cdromupgrade
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
warning: line 288: incompatible stripping characters and condition
warning: line 289: incompatible stripping characters and condition
warning: line 598: incompatible stripping characters and condition
warning: line 903: incompatible stripping characters and condition
warning: line 1312: incompatible stripping characters and condition
warning: line 1313: incompatible stripping characters and condition
warning: line 1314: incompatible stripping characters and condition
warning: line 1762: incompatible stripping characters and condition
warning: line 1763: incompatible stripping characters and condition
warning: line 1764: incompatible stripping characters and condition
WARNING: Failed to read mirror file
gpgv: Signature made Po 19. duben 2010, 20:16:43 CEST using DSA key ID FBB75451
gpgv: Good signature from "Ubuntu CD Image Automatic Signing Key <email address hidden>"