updating to Fedora 7 rc2

[Scott Berry]

Mike,

My understanding is that he means not to update a production system which is 
what I was going to do but I will forgo it and wait.  I don'
t want hell here.

Scott
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Chambers" <mike at miketc.com>
To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 11:25 PM
Subject: Re: updating to Fedora 7 rc2


> On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 09:58 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
>
>> IMHO, it is not a good idea to upgrade a system from a released/stable
>> version of Fedora to a Beta/RC version of the next release.  (Actually 
>> that
>> goes for almost any OS.)  That path is not formally tested and you may 
>> find
>> yourself in dependency hell or in a very confused state.
>
> You need to rethink what you just said.  It's *not* a good idea to
> upgrade from a released version to a beta/rc?  That path *is* formally
> tested and is *a wanted test* to do during the development of the next
> release.  How else are upgrades tested?  I am going to assume you mean a
> live production system and not a testing/beta machine that is doing it?
> Because that is part of the test, to upgrade from an earlier version to
> the latest, which means doing it against a beta or rc.
>
>> For example, the RC2 may have version 6 of a particular library or
>> application.  Then, in testing, it is decided that 5 was more stable than 
>> 6
>> and when the released version comes out it has 5 but you already have 6 
>> and
>> the upgrade patch is not designed to go backwards.
>
> Above would be correct, but again depending on what exactly you are
> referring to by upgrading, or at least which system (production?
> beta/test machine?).
>
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