On Tue, 2015-11-24 at 13:28 -0500, Richard Ryniker wrote: > On Tue, 24 Nov 2015 07:52:47 -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > > > I've upgraded several family members directly from Fedora 21 to Fedora 23 > > in the last week with no issues whatsoever (of course, I also curate > > their repository selection, so they don't end up with incompatible > > packages). > > Aye, there's the rub. It is not just update from an "original" > installation of N-2 to N, it is update from N-2 plus whatever additional > repository packages were installed plus additional non-repository > software and user configuration that you want to upgrade.
Not really. We have never really gone to any lengths to test or support N-1 upgrades with 3rd party repositories or non-repo software either. That's a different question. > Of course, these considerations also apply to the single-release upgrade. > The situation just gets worse the farther back one goes. I'm not really sure that logically follows. Why does the situation inevitably 'get worse' for N-2 upgrade? Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/test@lists.fedoraproject.org
