On Thu, 12 May 2005, seth vidal wrote: > > i have two questions related to this. first, regarding just > > running "yum update" to stay on top of things, even across test > > releases, what happens if there was a version of some package in > > "development" that turned out to be badly broken, and the decision > > was made to back off to an earlier version for the next test > > release? does this happen? if so, then just running "yum update" > > instead of reinstalling from scratch would leave you with a system > > that, for that package, was erroneously ahead of the curve. or is > > this not an issue? > > upgrading from stable to beta and beta to stable again is not > supported and never has been. You can use yum to go in that > direction but there is no explicit support for that process. just to be precise, then, it *is* possible that, as one goes from one test release to the next or a test release to the final release, one can find a package that's been reverted to an earlier version due to unfixable issues? rday