Warning against preupgrade

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 25 June 2009 16:05:18 Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:36:24 +0100
>
> Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:07:07 -0700
> >
> > Kevin Bowling <kevinb at analograils.com> wrote:
> > > 2 out of 5 failures.  F10->F11 is completely unusable for any kind
> > > of "uncommon" setup, i.e. LDAP login, Linux RAID, Xen DomU.
> > > Anything other than one IDE hard disk with default layout really.
> >
> > 2 out of 5 ? - I got 3 out of 4 fails including hitting error paths
> > that clearly were not tested because the error printing code didn't
> > work but spewed python traces - and yes its in bugzilla already.
>
> I have 0 out of 4 failures here.
>
> I note that the plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'. ;)
>
> It would be much better to get bugs on the failures so we could know
> what is failing and fix it. ;) (Thanks for filing that one Alan).
>
In principle, I agree, but the rule of thumb appears to be that if your 
install and subsequent updates are straightforward it stands a good chance of 
updating correctly.  If you have a more complicated system from any standpoint 
you are probably better advised to take control of the situation yourself.

Anne
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