greg wrote: > I know that downgrade is hard. The great thing is that the XO supports > that very elegantly right now! > > I don't want to lose that. > > It saved me once when I upgraded to joyride image without a developer > key (doh!) and was locked out.
but don't confuse "saving yourself" with a robust procedure that's guaranteed to leave your former environment in a fully useable/functional condition. i don't think that's what we have, or will have, in the foreseeable future. paul > > Thanks, > > Greg S > > greg wrote: > > Hi Martin, > > > > We need keep that capability of upgrade from anywhere to anywhere if at > > all possible! That is a huge benefit for our customers and for our > > managing the scope of testing. > > > > Even if we can just keep that from any 70x forward it will be a big > help. > > > > I know we hope 8.2.0 is rock solid but it may not be so we need an > > option to downgrade safely. > > downgrade is _very_ difficult to get right. it's a worthy goal, > but given our testing resources, and the natural concentration of > both developers and testers on the upgrade scenario, i wouldn't > promise downgrade. (and from what cscott has said to me every time > i mutter under my breath about upgrade oddness, i'm under the > impression that the "boot to previous version" is really only > a failsafe mechanism to keep the box running until your upgrade > is successful, and isn't intended as a true "downgrade". correct > me if i'm wrong, scott.) > > paul > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel =--------------------- paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
