Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:58:38 +0100, Tim Jackson wrote:
> What happened to that script that used to run and check all the ENVRs
> across releases to make sure that there was a proper upgrade path (i.e.
> F8 < F8-updates < F9 etc.)? That was really useful.
>
> I have had a disappointing experience on a couple of machines with doing
> upgrades from F-8 to F-9, where there are a lot of F-8 packages still
> hanging around that shouldn't be, mostly due to ENVR problems (F-8 updates
> > F-9)
Still in cvs:
http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/upgradecheck/?root=fedora
It used to be run automatically after each Extras push, but when the
build system moved to koji and bodhi, this feature was killed. Probably
it was considered unimportant or a source of "spam". That's a problem
with stuff that isn't backed up or enforced by project leadership. When
I started to run it manually after some time prior to the next release
of Fedora, the number of negative voices was overwhelming...
Hmm. That negative feedback kinda sucks.
I was personally hit by this issue upgrading from F-8 to F-9. It didn't
actually break my upgrade, but it would have nice not to encounter, and
seemingly very easily avoided.
Perhaps this issue should be proposed as a discussion point for the next
FESCO meeting?
I filed bugs, and one of the two rpms I had not-upgraded was re-released
as a new update for F-9 which solved that.
The other, grub, is a bit more problematic, since there's no way to
solve it in the actual preupgrade/CD-upgrade step, (since the install CD
and initial F-9 release probably can't be remade to fix it), and any new
F-9 features in grub could conceivably be relevant to an upgrade.