Robert P. J. Day wrote:
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?
Agreed 100%.