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

Gavin Henry ghenry at suretecsystems.com
Fri Feb 25 14:35:37 UTC 2005


<quote who="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.
>

Is this not the nature of RPMS? A seemless upgrade path?

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