On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 06:37 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Tuesday 05 June 2007 06:29:33 Michael Schwendt wrote: > > On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:45:41 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > The %dist tags assure a steady upgrade path on packages' EVRs between > > > distros. > > > > That's a myth. Only R not EVR. OK, ok, yes, you are right. > > Unless it's a full online dist-upgrade, EVR path breaks easily. Well, in practice, nobody will use a CD/DVD only Fedora distro. > Indeed. "proper upgrade path" can only really be achieved in the first week > of a new release. > > After that updates to the older release will go beyond the > versions in the new release iso set anyway. Until such time as we are able > to enable doing Anaconda upgrades with the updates repo enabled this will > continue to be the situation. Agreed, upgrading an online-updated FC6 to "FC7-DVD-only" won't work, but I don't see why upgrading an "online-updated FC6" to "an online-updated FC7" can't be assured. Ralf -- 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
