On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 09:28:33AM -0500, Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
> On Mar 30, 2009, at 9:26 AM, Kamesh Jayachandran wrote:
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> > Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
> >> Do we support upgrade version-hopping like this? I was under the
> >> impression that to upgrade from 1.X to 1.X+2, you'd better go through
> >> 1.X+1.
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> > What if somebody is *not* interested in 1.X and continue using old
> > 1.X-1
> > and suddenly needs 1.X+1 badly, so why not he upgrade directly?
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> > In any case atleast we should detect leap upgrades and take meaningful
> > upgrade path or atleast suggest something useful instead of vague
> > error.
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> Sure. I'm not saying we shouldn't support it, I'm just that I didn't
> know we currently do support that upgrade path. (And if somebody
> really did want to jump several repository formats ahead, they are
> probably better off doing a dump/load.)
It's a regression either way because it worked with 1.5.x.
I'd say we should fix the bug, whether or not we support such
an upgrade. It's an easy fix.
Stefan
Received on 2009-03-30 16:32:59 CEST