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Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

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Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

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Post by creshal »

Small warning: Ubuntu's "do you want to upgrade" popup window defaults to "yes". Had to find that out the hard way when a user hit Enter the wrong moment and was suddenly sitting in front of a bricked system.

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

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Post by slight »

pjf wrote: post #12
tard wrote: post #3

what are they going to do when they run out of letters in the alphabet?

obviously, invent new letters :)

Invent two thirds of a new alphabet and then get distracted by the idea of creating new numbers and promise to complete the alphabet "real soon now"? ;)

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

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Post by nailer »

tomswartz07 wrote: post #15
knocte wrote: post #4

I love the part about simplifying packaging via 'snap'. Now, I would love to know, if I'm a maintainer of Foo (and you can get it today via `apt-get install foo`), how will I be able to start packaging using snap rather than relying on deb packages that come from debian? I'd love any feedback, cheers!

Just a side note, as well: `apt-get` is depreciated, they've moved to just plain `apt` `apt install foo`

Nice. There were a couple of things that were 'apt-cache', I could never remember which, I gather 'apt' does those too?

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

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Post by creshal »

knocte wrote: post #4

I love the part about simplifying packaging via 'snap'. Now, I would love to know, if I'm a maintainer of Foo (and you can get it today via `apt-get install foo`), how will I be able to start packaging using snap rather than relying on deb packages that come from debian? I'd love any feedback, cheers!

> I love the part about simplifying packaging via 'snap'.

Bleargh. More container bullshit, now with even less control over it by end users. Now each tiny library update (think OpenSSL security fixes) will pull hundreds of "snaps" instead of a single package… assuming the developers even realize they have to rebuild their snaps.

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

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Post by anuragsoni »

knocte wrote: post #4

I love the part about simplifying packaging via 'snap'. Now, I would love to know, if I'm a maintainer of Foo (and you can get it today via `apt-get install foo`), how will I be able to start packaging using snap rather than relying on deb packages that come from debian? I'd love any feedback, cheers!

If you have the source of the package you might be able to use ubuntu's snapcraft[1] tool to create snap packages. There is a project on github called deb2snap[2] that might help creating snaps from deb packages which is something that might help. I haven't used it so can't provide any feedback on how well it works. The README is pretty detailed though.

[1] https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/build-apps/

[2] https://github.com/mikix/deb2snap

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

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Post by tomku »

nailer wrote: post #24
tomswartz07 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just a side note, as well: `apt-get` is depreciated, they've moved to just plain `apt` `apt install foo`

Nice. There were a couple of things that were 'apt-cache', I could never remember which, I gather 'apt' does those too?

It does 'seach' and 'show' from apt-cache at least, not sure about any others.

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

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Post by amelius »

creshal wrote: post #21

Small warning: Ubuntu's "do you want to upgrade" popup window defaults to "yes". Had to find that out the hard way when a user hit Enter the wrong moment and was suddenly sitting in front of a bricked system.

Is upgrade failing in general or in this specific case only?
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