FC3rc5

[Res]

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Kim Lux wrote:

> To me, "support" means that when I ask for advice and tell someone that
> my installation was an upgrade they don't laugh at me and tell me to
> uninstall and reinstall fresh.  That is a Windows concept, not the sort
> of attitude we can have with servers and workstation machines.


Agreed



>
>
> On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 18:22 -0400, Charles R. Anderson wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 12:05:02AM +0200, Matias Féliciano wrote:
>>> My "opinion".
>>> Today, Fedora does not support :
>>> - FC(x) => FC(x+1)T(y) and FC(x)T(y) => FC(x) .
>>
>> I'm pretty sure the former is supported--the goal is always to support
>> upgrading to what will become FC(x+1).  Of course, what do you mean by
>> "support"?  Anaconda doesn't outright prevent you from doing any
>> upgrades, so all upgrades are "supported" in that sense.
>>
>>> - FCx => FC(x+1)RC(y) and FC(x)RC(y) => FC(x)
>>> should be supported.
>>
>> "supported" how?  These are test releases.  The goal is always to have
>> upgrades work, especially as we get closer to a release, but there
>> will be bugs in test releases that cannot be solved always without a
>> fresh install (unless you know how to fix the issues manually
>> yourself).  An example of this is package version downgrades.
>>
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