Re: upgrade path from U4 beta to release U4?

[Ed Wilts <ewilts ewilts org>]

On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 12:31:55PM -0500, Eric Hagberg MorganStanley com wrote:
> In that case, it'd be good to have an option to up2date so that it could
> report on rpm versions that are newer than those the channels to which
> you're subscribed. That way you could easily track this sort of problem
> and keep it from biting you - and Red Hat could more easily tell that this
> had been done.

What you can't protect yourself from is any scripts that the beta may
have done.  Red Hat could easily ensure that the real U4 (or whatever)
had the highest version of any package, but if a beta rpm scripts
screwed something up, they're not going to code around that (and may not
even be able to).

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