FC5->FC6T3 (DVD) upgrade dies. Time to consider test4? (Was: Yum upgrade?)

[Gilboa Davara]

On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 11:01 +0900, Naoki wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 22:05 +0000, Bojan Smojver wrote:
> > Gilboa Davara <gilboad <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > 
> > > FC/RH should -really- really -really- consider doing a Test4 release. 
> > > FC6 is far from being ready from prime time.
> > 
> > I would personally be happy with the state of Rawhide being fixed to the point
> > that FC5 to Rawhide upgrade works, possibly both from an image and via "yum
> > upgrade". That would probably be sufficient to guarantee that the release works
> > as well.
> > 
> > --
> > Bojan
> 
> Upgrades have always worked in the past, while it has never been
> "officially supported", and there have been issues with it from time to
> time requiring some hoop jumping it's always been possible. I'd
> certainly want to maintain that functionality. 
> 
> Along with this and some pretty serious other bugs in x86_64 and the Xen
> kernel I'd agree more testing is required.
> 

CD/DVD upgrade from one stable release to a stable release (+n) has
-always- been fully supported.
It is Yum upgrade that is not supported.

- Gilboa