Re: upgrade path
bruce wrote,
>
> 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.
I just had a half an idea :)
Suppose that rather than leaving a full 1.2 around, we create an update1-1.1to1.2.deb file, with all the needed pieces? That is, all those that need to be upgraded before upgrading to 1.3?
rick
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