On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Rodd Clarkson wrote: > On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 20:27 -0400, Richard Ramson wrote: > > > After all the trouble I went through to keep my PC updated with > > FC4T1, do I need to update to 2? I hope its not a complete > > reinstall. :( I tried accessing some of the 3.91 directories but > > couldn't get in either. I guess we gotta wait until the 11th. > > ;) > > Normally, you don't need to. > > BUT.... (you knew it was coming) > > Part of the purpose of all these tests is to test them. Much of the > distro can be tested just doing update (and of course removing stuff > that's been depreciated - and then possibly nagging that the > depreciated package isn't included in extras yet). > > However, you're not just testing updates, you're testing the > installer and how well a fresh install works out of the box. Just > updating can't really replicate this (but it comes close), so if you > can do a fresh install, that's quite useful. this brings up a point i've been thinking about ever since fc4t1 had such annoying installation problems. i realize that RH doesn't like to do "respins" of test releases and, for the most part, that makes sense. but if a test release turns out to have a *serious* installation problem that prevents a lot of folks from even getting it onto their system, wouldn't a respin be justified in this situation? after all, if people can't even install it, they're certainly not going to be able to test it. thoughts? rday