New schedule for FC5 Test2 ISO roll-out?

Michael A. Peters mpeters at mac.com
Wed Jan 11 14:55:51 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 09:14 -0500, D Canfield wrote:

> Maybe I'll be laughed off the list, but I do think it would be great if 
> a *goal* (not a requirement) of at least test3 of a given release would 
> be to upgrade to final.

Impossible because some applications may need to be downgraded for final
- which can not really be done easily with yum (not w/o using epoch's -
but that would be a silly reason to use an epoch)

>   Might help get a bit more testing on more 
> diverse hardware if there wasn't the expectation that we will likely 
> have to re-install a few weeks later.

No test release should be used without expectation of re-install.

> 
> Similarly, it would be nice if there were some notes between test 
> releases (and final) pointing out any changes that might not have been 
> handled by rpm -Fvh.

If updating is done between test releases - it should be done clean
install because the installer needs testing, and furthermore, the
software should be tested in a clean slate - as that may reveal issues
that need to be fixed, and might avoid false issues caused by previous
test release.




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