Re: upgrade path
> We want it to be easy for people to upgrade. However, it's currently
> difficult for people who had 1.1 on their systems to upgrade to 1.3,
> because the best way to do this was to install 1.2 and then 1.3 . You can
> go straight from 1.1 to 1.3, but I hear this is much more difficult.
> We kept the files for 1.2 on our 75 mirror sites for a good long time after
> 1.3 came out, and then we removed them. Nobody complained by the time we
> removed them, so I guess everyone who wanted to upgrade got the files in time.
>
> When you look at the size of our FTP archive it's clear we need to remove
> stuff eventually. I'd be happy to have a site where old stuff could remain
> for a much longer time - is anyone still keeping 1.2 on-line?
I suspect that to make 1.1 -> 1.2 -> 1.3 upgrade possible, we'd
need rather few packages from 1.2 (probably only a subset of
the base system). So, if we want to allow users to do
upgrades of old systems, maybe we should consider keeping 1.x/base,
and throwing away the rest? (base fits on 3 floppies, and should surely
fit on the mirror sites).
Or do you really need non-base 1.2 stuff to upgrade an 1.1 system
to 1.3?
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joost witteveen, joostje@debian.org
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