FC4T2 -> FC4T3
Robert P. J. Day
rpjday at mindspring.com
Thu May 12 14:46:51 UTC 2005
On Thu, 12 May 2005, seth vidal wrote:
> > i have two questions related to this. first, regarding just
> > running "yum update" to stay on top of things, even across test
> > releases, what happens if there was a version of some package in
> > "development" that turned out to be badly broken, and the decision
> > was made to back off to an earlier version for the next test
> > release? does this happen? if so, then just running "yum update"
> > instead of reinstalling from scratch would leave you with a system
> > that, for that package, was erroneously ahead of the curve. or is
> > this not an issue?
>
> upgrading from stable to beta and beta to stable again is not
> supported and never has been. You can use yum to go in that
> direction but there is no explicit support for that process.
just to be precise, then, it *is* possible that, as one goes from one
test release to the next or a test release to the final release, one
can find a package that's been reverted to an earlier version due to
unfixable issues?
rday
More information about the fedora-test-list
mailing list