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On 01/02/2011 11:04 PM, Joshua Saddler wrote: |
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> Whatever you folks eventually settle on, please send patches and |
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> suggestions to the GDP for our upgrade guide. I'd prefer that users |
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> have a possible upgrade path from *any* profile/version of Gentoo up |
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> through the present. If you decide not to support anything older than |
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> version X and require reinstalling or some other set of procedures, |
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> please let the GDP know via our ML or bugzilla. |
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The current hard requirement is one year: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20091109-summary.txt |
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The follow up discussion probably didn't end up in any concrete |
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decisions. If we want to actually make sure upgrades from old installs |
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(>1 year) work then we should setup some kind of a bot doing upgrades. |
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It would then provide the documentation for the upgrade path and make |
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sure it keeps working. |
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Regards, |
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Petteri |
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