Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:58:38 +0100, Tim Jackson wrote: > >> What happened to that script that used to run and check all the ENVRs >> across releases to make sure that there was a proper upgrade path (i.e. >> F8 < F8-updates < F9 etc.)? That was really useful. >> >> I have had a disappointing experience on a couple of machines with doing >> upgrades from F-8 to F-9, where there are a lot of F-8 packages still >> hanging around that shouldn't be, mostly due to ENVR problems (F-8 updates >> > F-9) > > Still in cvs: > http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/upgradecheck/?root=fedora > > It used to be run automatically after each Extras push, but when the > build system moved to koji and bodhi, this feature was killed. Probably > it was considered unimportant or a source of "spam". That's a problem > with stuff that isn't backed up or enforced by project leadership. When > I started to run it manually after some time prior to the next release > of Fedora, the number of negative voices was overwhelming... Hmm. That negative feedback kinda sucks. I was personally hit by this issue upgrading from F-8 to F-9. It didn't actually break my upgrade, but it would have nice not to encounter, and seemingly very easily avoided. Perhaps this issue should be proposed as a discussion point for the next FESCO meeting? I filed bugs, and one of the two rpms I had not-upgraded was re-released as a new update for F-9 which solved that. The other, grub, is a bit more problematic, since there's no way to solve it in the actual preupgrade/CD-upgrade step, (since the install CD and initial F-9 release probably can't be remade to fix it), and any new F-9 features in grub could conceivably be relevant to an upgrade. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
