On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 09:31 +0200, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Jun 22, 2009, at 9:26, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > On 06/22/2009 12:54 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: > >> Not possible while we allow people to keep making updates to the > >> older > >> releases. Those updates quickly become version ( not just release > >> even > >> ) higher than the static copies on the release medium and repos. > > > > Is there any proposed solution to this problem? We can't just continue > > to break upgrade paths and call it the way things are done. > > > If you have any ideas I'd like to hear them. A super epoch has already > been suggested but that just masks the problem and may cause unwanted > downgrades. Any solution either involves severly limiting what kind of > updates can be done or requiring network access during upgrades. Does anaconda currently force installs of core packages such as yum? This is quite important if the version in the old distro is newer than that on the DVD. -- Jussi Lehtola Fedora Project Contributor jussilehtola@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
