Upgrades - updates - discuss?

[Jesse Keating]

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:32:27 -0600
Robin Laing <Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca> wrote:

> I have seen some cases of installing F7 rpms in FC6 and this makes me 
> think that it would be possible to implement F8 rpms in F7 and
> possibly F9 rpms in F8 when it comes out.  I guess what I am trying
> to say is that by the time F9 is ready to be spun, the F8
> repositories are carrying most if not all the software of F9 and
> users would be at the F9 level.

That's pretty difficult to do, especially if we want to do something
like transition from python2.4 to python2.5, or the X work that Ajax is
about to start.  There is a reason it's a new release and not just a
pile of updates to the old release.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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