Idly wondering as I run the Ubuntu 24.10 upgrade on my primary workstation what's going to end up broken this time
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And the ones that _are_ still there, apt seems not to be checking? Like, "apt update" pings the standard Ubuntu sources, but none of the custom ones that remain.
Now if you will excuse me, I need to bang my forehead on my desk until my brains fall out
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Jason Lefkowitzreplied to Jason Lefkowitz last edited by [email protected]
Oh goody, it looks like Debian changed apt's file format for custom sources. This means that any sources using the old one-line format wouldn't work.
Which is presumably why Ubuntu just threw all of mine out, even if it would have been much nicer of them to rewrite them into the new format for me
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I am learning a lot more about apt today than I wanted to.
So the old one-line apt format still works, BUT, you have to use it in a file with the extension .list. The new DEB822 format goes into files with the extension .sources.
You CAN mix and match these formats, but only if you give each type of file the appropriate extension. If you use one format or the other with the wrong extension, things break.
(Which now brings me back to the question of where my old one-line .list files went. Sigh.)
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@[email protected] it's not like it's a downstream distribution that does planned releases and specific upgrade paths so they could have ensured this didn't happen or anything.
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@[email protected] so, yeah, this has historically been my experience with Ubuntu release upgrades. I'm always confused when I meet someone who says it works, because it is always this type of scenario.
(for the record, it was indeed enough to make me ditch Ubuntu, especially when I was responsible for keeping the undergrad student lab desktops updated in our group. They basically died every semester). -
@[email protected] Do they not keep a mapping/graph of package changes and functionality, etc? If for whatever reason the luks functionality required is now in that package...
Then again, who knows about Ubuntu is actually doing with .deb nowadays, since half the .deb files are just wrappers around snaps. -
@jalefkowit how did it work out, brother?
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@openbuddha Not great. Scroll down the thread
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@jalefkowit oh jeez. When I rebuilt my last Framework laptop, I did a new installation and forgot to turn on Luks. I’m not sure that was a bad mistake now.
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@openbuddha I feel like for laptops it's kind of mandatory. They're just so easy to steal. But I do wish it was easier to set up and manage.
