Broken upgrade paths in F7

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue May 15 18:44:06 UTC 2007


Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Tue, 15 May 2007 23:12:59 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 
>> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>
>>> The F7 isos of course still has foo-1.1-4.fc7.i386.rpm; so if someone
>>> has a full up2date F6-system two weeks after F7 got released and then
>>> does the upgrade from F6 to F7 with the media he won't get foo updated
>>> anyway. He'll get it with the first "yum update" after the dist upgrade.
>>>
>>> So we need to *always* make sure the upgrade path is proper, not only at
>>> release time. 
>> I think you missed out a part of what I said which was confined to the 
>> release. The updates system should check for this and refuse to publish 
>> if a sane update path doesn't exist from a previous release.
> 
> That updates for dist N would have to wait for updates for dist N+1 would be
> unfortunate.

Maintainers don't necessarily have to wait. They just need to fix it 
simultaneously when they do an update. That is a bit more work but I 
don't think that's unfortunate.

Rahul




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