FC3 -> FC4 Upgrade? (was Re: reducing distribution CD count)

[Aaron Bennett]

David Woodhouse wrote:

>
>People who require the overzealously pruned packages can just skip FC4
>and wait until FC5, at which point upgrades from FC3 should hopefully be
>working again.
>
>  
>
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.



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Aaron Bennett
UNIX Administrator
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering