Seamless "downgrade" from test-brach to final version
Klaasjan Brand
fedora at kjb.dds.nl
Wed Sep 13 14:22:04 UTC 2006
Arik Raffael Funke wrote:
>
> Thanks Jesse. I am maybe lacking imagination, but where will problems
> typically arise? If all packages are replaced by their final version,
> why is it probable that conflicts will occur? (I am thinking of fairly
> advanced testversions that have been feature-frozen, i.e. test4.)
> Sorry if this sounds naive... I saw that the wiki does not recommend
> it, but it did not explain, why this is a bad idea. :-)
It's not recommended since there's no guarantee the upgrade will result
in the same FC6 system as a clean install will do.
In the past there have been test releases with data corruption problems.
If your filesystem is trashed by a test release it won't help to upgrade
to the final release.
Klaasjan
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