Broken upgrade paths in F7

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 15.05.2007 10:26, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 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.

Well, I'm sure you and some other know that, but I got the impression
that some people forgot about that or are not aware of it, so I thought
it was worth pointing out again :-)

> A better example increases %version and/or introduces a
> new ABI. ;o)  Firstboot fun.

Yeah.

/me wonders what anaconda does in this case

>> 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.

Likely.

CU
thl