Broken upgrade paths in F7

Michael Schwendt bugs.michael at gmx.net
Tue May 15 08:26:55 UTC 2007


On Tue, 15 May 2007 09:52:03 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:

> > Avoid broken upgrade paths like the plague. They bear a big risk of
> > breaking Yum dist-upgrades, which in turn give burnt users a good
> > opportunity to bash Fedora. [...]
> 
> Agreed, but that's a general problem, and not that specific to release
> time as the upgrade path against the released F7 might break soon after
> F7 was released anyway. Example:

Yes, known thing. A better example increases %version and/or introduces a
new ABI. ;o)  Firstboot fun.

> So we need to *always* make sure the upgrade path is proper, not only at
> release time.

That's only easy as long as only %release is updated for old dists.
When old dists get %version upgrades, there is no solution other than
pure online dist-upgrades.




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