updating to Fedora 7 rc2

Tony Nelson tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Mon May 28 17:26:18 UTC 2007


At 11:56 PM -0500 5/27/07, Mike Chambers wrote:
>On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 12:43 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
>
>> It is much more time saving to test each beta individually and then when you
>> have your final RC test an upgrade from a formal previous release to a
>> formal final release or final RC.  If any problems are found at that point
>> you fix those and then release.
>>
>> It is inefficient to resolve upgrade issues in multiple beta stages that may
>> or may not exist when you get further down the line.
>
>OK, if I understand you, you're saying you should test each beta
>separately, as a "by itself install" until you get to an RC, and then
>test the official upgrade from official release to RC?
 ...

Note that Fedora policy is that upgrades from the last test release to the
final are supposed to work, in order to encourage wider testing.  Effort is
put into making them work, or at least documenting how to work around any
issues.
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