Release criterion proposal: upgrade methods

[drago01]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Tim Flink <tflink at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:40:08 +0200
> drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > The installer must be able to successfully complete an upgrade
>> > installation from a clean, fully updated default installation (from
>> > any official install medium) of the previous stable Fedora release,
>> > either via preupgrade or by booting to the installer manually. The
>> > upgraded system must meet all release criteria.
>
>
>> Neither will the installer. For F18 a new tool will be written that
>> acts like preupgrade (downloads packages; reboots; upgrades), it might
>> use preupgrade but this isn't decided yet.
>> So I suggest to rewrite the text to say "The upgrade tool".
>
> Point taken - there are few details available (that I'm aware of) which
> describe how any upgrades will work for F18.

https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/946
See "2012-09-05 FESCo" meeting logs for details.

> How about:
>
> A clean, fully updated default installation (done with any official
> install method) of the previous stable Fedora release must be
> upgradable via any officially supported upgrade mechanism. The upgraded
> system must meet all release criteria.

s/any/all/ (in case we happen to support multiple methods).