upgrading test->released

[Dag Wieers]

On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Gene C. wrote:

> I have seen people asking if it OK to just update (or upgrade) their running 
> FC-1 test3 to the official FC-1.  As RedHat have said numerous times, this is 
> "not supported".  It turns out that the ntptrace problem discussed in other 
> messages demonstrate why this update/upgrade is not a good idea.
> 
> The test version included ntp-4.2.0.  Before the final version of FC-1, it was 
> decided to revert to a previous version of ntp (4.1.2) because of stability 
> problems with 4.2.0.  Now if you update/upgrade, the "older" 4.1.2 package 
> will not replace the installed 4.2.0.
> 
> Folks, please, do fresh installs and do not try and continue 
> updating/upgrading.  Save yourself some headaches.

It would be nice though if apt-get dist-upgrade (or a simple apt pinning 
config) would allow to upgrade _and_ downgrade to one giving version (for 
all of the packages belonging to) a repository.

For instance:

	apt-get dist-upgrade fedora

would then level everything to fedora (and match all dependencies) for the 
packages that fedora actually has. All other packages are kept (if 
possible).

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