future upgrade to Fedora 7 final

[Michael Wiktowy]

On 3/16/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Michael Wiktowy wrote:
> > From what I understand, from response to previous similar requests
> > throughout the years, yum  and anaconda upgrading from Rawhide is
> > possible (like Rahul says) but discouraged and unsupported ...
> Since the changes from test4 is supposed to be minimal, there is plan
> discussed on the last Fedora QA meeting on "supporting" updates from
> test4 to the general release of Fedora 7 to see how well this works out
> in practice. Reverts to an earlier version might be handled using epochs
> if they are really required.

That is good news. Treating test4 as a kind of release candidate that
a user can officially upgrade from might get more people on board to
catch last minute installation issues on bizarre hardware and reduce
the release day download surge.

/Mike