[indiana-discuss] Re: 3.1) Installation

[Alberto Ruiz]

2007/6/16, Ian Murdock <Ian.Murdock at sun.com>:
>
> Daniel Griffith wrote:
> > On 6/13/07, Glynn Foster <Glynn.Foster at sun.com> wrote:
> >
> >> "It should not be expected to support an upgrade skipping releases
> >> eg. A -> B -> C is supported, A -> C is not supported without an
> >> upgrade to B first."
> >>
> >> and in the end I was convinced that should be removed, especially since
> I
> >> believe Solaris supports upgrades from at least 2 releases behind. But
> >> the fact
> >> remains, what is the user expectation vs the potential for supporting
> >> that
> >> expectation?
> >
> > I would say that someone _would_ have that expectation from a modern
> > distribution.
>
> I disagree. While A -> C might work on many distros, the vendors are
> usually very careful to say only B -> C is actually supported. So, from
> an OpenSolaris/Indiana perspective, A -> B -> C but not A -> C is
> entirely reasonable. Now, we may want to make exceptions, e.g. if future
> versions of Solaris are just releases on the same train. If, say, C was
> the next version of Solaris, Sun may want to support A -> C, and would
> put resources into the community to enable that. But, as a general rule,
> I don't see anything wrong with the requirement as Glynn originally
> wrote as regards OpenSolaris/Indiana. If they're
> OpenSolaris/Indiana users, they'll generally be staying up to date.


If not supported, then it should be "explicitly" not supported, so if a user
want to do A->C a suggestion to go throug B first should be made with its
consequent confirmation dialog.

-ian
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Un saludo,
Alberto Ruiz
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