Kubuntu Alpha's

[Clay Weber]

On Monday 21 September 2009 11:59:58 am Sascha Güthling wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 5:33 AM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Though I will make a complete new install for the final release I
> >> think the update would work too. The update system is smart enough to
> >> install all the new package and kick out obsolete ones. It's probably
> >> all the ongoing changes in the repositories that make trouble right
> >> now.
> >
> > No, Sascha, the update mechanism is not smart enough to "install all
> > the new package and kick out obsolete ones" from the alphas. Apt-get
> > only compares version numbers, and that is often misleading in the
> > alpha stage. You might get away with updating from an RC to the
> > released version, but betas and especially alphas should _not_ be
> > updated to production systems.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Dotan Cohen
> >
> > http://what-is-what.com
> > http://gibberish.co.il
> 
> I don't understand what is wrong or misleading with comparing version
> numbers. If a newer version becomes available it will be installed by
> the update mechanism. At the end (meaning after an update) the whole
> system should only contain the newest versions of all installed
> packages and obsolete packages should have been removed. So if the
> repository stays the same I should be able to update all the way from
> alpha1 to the final release. Right?
> 
> Sascha
> 
In theory, yes. But in the alpha stage something obsolete might not get 
removed right away, if the new and as-yet-untested packages are mis-configured 
in that area
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