FC3rc5

[Kim Lux]

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. 


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.
>