Re: Recommended upgrade procedure for >1 release upgrades

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On Qui, 2016-11-17 at 12:25 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-11-17 at 12:18 -0800, Chris Murphy wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Adam Williamson
> > <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > You'll notice we don't explicitly specify *how* you should do
> > > this.
> > > That is,
> > > if you're currently running Fedora 23, and you want to upgrade to
> > > Fedora 25
> > > next week, are you supposed to:
> > > 
> > > i) Upgrade to Fedora 24 first, then from Fedora 24 to Fedora 25
> > > ii) Upgrade directly to Fedora 25
> > If there are no concerns or impediments from gnome-software, et al,
> > as
> > well as QA, then I'd say both should be equally supported. Some may
> > want to go to 24 and later to 25, others intentionally skip
> > releases
> > and will want to go from 23 to 25. Both are valid use cases. Both
> > ought to work short of technical or resource limitations. So I'd
> > figure out those, and then set the policy or recommendation to
> > match
> > that.
> gnome-software is currently written quite specifically to offer only
> *one* upgrade target at a time. Changing that would be a lot more
> work
> than adjusting the logic used to choose which to offer.
> 
> Of course, that doesn't mean we can't say our *distribution level*
> policy is that either is equally recommended. We'd then have to make
> a
> separate decision about which one GNOME Software should offer, so
> long
> as it can't offer both.

but GNOME Software use dnf-plugin-system-upgrade ? if yes , since then
we have dnf-plugin-system-upgrade should be safe offer ii 


-- 
Sérgio M. B.

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