I updated the meta-release-proposed file on the server to point at the dist-upgrader in zesty-proposed and then ran through the test from the test case. I had to modify the cached meta-release-proposed file (since the we are verifying an SRU in -proposed) on my system to verify the SRU but after that the test passed.
bdmurray@clean-xenial-amd64:~$ do-release-upgrade -p Checking for a new Ubuntu release Get:1 Upgrade tool signature [836 B] Get:2 Upgrade tool [1,265 kB] Fetched 1,266 kB in 0s (0 B/s) authenticate 'yakkety.tar.gz' against 'yakkety.tar.gz.gpg' extracting 'yakkety.tar.gz' [screen is terminating] bdmurray@clean-xenial-amd64:~$ vi ~/.cache/update-manager-core/meta-release-proposed bdmurray@clean-xenial-amd64:~$ do-release-upgrade -p Checking for a new Ubuntu release Get:1 Upgrade tool signature [836 B] Get:2 Upgrade tool [1,268 kB] Fetched 1,269 kB in 0s (0 B/s) authenticate 'zesty.tar.gz' against 'zesty.tar.gz.gpg' extracting 'zesty.tar.gz' Additionally, when using the zesty tarball I did not receive an error about the upgrade path being unsupported. ** Tags removed: verification-needed ** Tags added: verification-done -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1692092 Title: not possible to upgrade from Xenial and jump over an unsupported release To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1692092/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
