On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 09:31 -0500, Aaron Bennett wrote: >Wha?? Upgrades from FC3 -> FC4 are not going to work? I must have >missed something. Can someone confirm that this is true, or better >yet, not true? If there's no upgrade path from FCX -> FCY, then the >six month release cycle + Red Hat's EOL policy will orphan users on >un-upgradeable systems. It depends on the packages you have installed. As it stands, some packages which were in FC3 are missing from the rawhide tree -- so an upgrade will not be able to update the complete package set. The will leave outdated packages installed -- whether that causes problems or not depends on the package and its dependencies. If it's built against versions of shared libraries which are no longer present, then I believe the installer will have removed the old version of those libraries and will have left the package in question broken. That may be your MTA or your X environment -- nothing important :) As Seth says, you may be able to update the missing packages separately to remedy this, if Extras has actually come together and has those packages in a usable form by the time you upgrade. By the time FC5 happens, however, Extras should be working properly and the installer should handle it -- an upgrade should work properly as before. That's why many people are requesting that we postpone the package-killing spree until FC5 instead of doing it now. The upgrade/EOL schedules basically give you the leeway to skip a Fedora release and upgrade from N to N+2. If FC4 doesn't regain the missing packages, I suspect I'll just be leaving most of my machines running FC3 until FC5 is released, and update them then. The ones which were FC2 and waiting till FC4 will be updated to FC3 and then wait till FC5. -- dwmw2
