Re: Broken upgrade paths in F7

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On Tue, 15 May 2007 23:12:59 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> 
> > The F7 isos of course still has foo-1.1-4.fc7.i386.rpm; so if someone
> > has a full up2date F6-system two weeks after F7 got released and then
> > does the upgrade from F6 to F7 with the media he won't get foo updated
> > anyway. He'll get it with the first "yum update" after the dist upgrade.
> > 
> > So we need to *always* make sure the upgrade path is proper, not only at
> > release time. 
> 
> I think you missed out a part of what I said which was confined to the 
> release. The updates system should check for this and refuse to publish 
> if a sane update path doesn't exist from a previous release.

That updates for dist N would have to wait for updates for dist N+1 would be
unfortunate.

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