Ubuntu Upgrade - The Aftermath

Well, as mentioned above, I forgot to grab a list of custom repos, but that was about the only thing of note in what I can honest describe was the smoothest upgrade I've ever done. More so than some of the in-place ones I've done too, which I'm pretty impressed with. There were a few things that I had to tweak, but these were down to how I've got my system setup, and I doubt they'll affect the majority of people. (I needed to copy the grub bootsector twice -- I presume an update went through in my first batch of updates -- and the usual tomfoolery to get ATI's graphics manager to work how I want with my two screens, but again this is far improved vs Karmic.)

Re-installing my packages was smooth too. I ran diff on the two lists of manually installed files, and then just looked down the list for those I wanted to bring back. Despite this I'm wishing that apt allowed you to add packages of the list of those to be installed once it was going, or at least during the downloading stage, since I still forgot some. Another nice feature there would be to sort the downloads such that it can begin some of the installs while other downloads continue.

It was really pleasing to login to my clean install and immediately have all my old settings present (though since I store some on yet another partition I didn't quite get my look-and-feel back right away). Thankfully a quick dive into /etc/fstab to paste in my old settings quickly resolved this one.

There are some slight issues with Lucid, most noticeably the desktop background isn't quite right though it had already been filed as a bug on Launchpad.