On 15.05.2007 10:26, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Tue, 15 May 2007 09:52:03 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > >>> Avoid broken upgrade paths like the plague. They bear a big risk of >>> breaking Yum dist-upgrades, which in turn give burnt users a good >>> opportunity to bash Fedora. [...] >> Agreed, but that's a general problem, and not that specific to release >> time as the upgrade path against the released F7 might break soon after >> F7 was released anyway. Example: > Yes, known thing. Well, I'm sure you and some other know that, but I got the impression that some people forgot about that or are not aware of it, so I thought it was worth pointing out again :-) > A better example increases %version and/or introduces a > new ABI. ;o) Firstboot fun. Yeah. /me wonders what anaconda does in this case >> So we need to *always* make sure the upgrade path is proper, not only at >> release time. > That's only easy as long as only %release is updated for old dists. > When old dists get %version upgrades, there is no solution other than > pure online dist-upgrades. Likely. CU thl -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
