redhat-config-packages bugs

[Stephen Smoogen]

On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Dennis Gilmore wrote:

>Once upon a time at band camp Sat, 27 Sep 2003 3:01 pm, Craig Ringer wrote:
>> > i did an upgrade on my laptop from Red Hat 9 to test 2.
>>
>> You're better off clean-installing the betas.
>
>Clean installs defeat the purpose of part of the beta testing process,  i.e  
>how are upgrades handled.  if noonw tests an upgrade during beta period how 
>will upgrade bugs be found?
>

The only valid tests are upgrading from a release to a beta. If you 
installed beta1 you should either reinstall 9 and then upgrade to 
severn2... or do a clean install.

beta to beta has never been supported or will ever be because it is not 
a valid QA process. 

Now the real test is to install up the trail... go from RHL 2.1, 3.0.3, 
4.0,4.1,5.0,5.1,5.2,6.0,6.1,6.2,7.0,7.1,7.2,7.3,8.0,9 and then see what 
cruft is left over :).


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