"s/stable/broken/g"

[Freddie Cash]

On March 22, 2008 01:01 pm Peter Much wrote:
> Both of them were running Release 5.5, and they were doing all that
> is needed, and I was perfectly happy with this.
>
> Now, as we know, security support for Release 5.5 will terminate
> during this spring, and as my computers are exposed to the Internet,
> this means that I MUST upgrade, even while I do not need or want
> anything from a higher release.
>
> So I upgraded the first computer to Release 6.3. The outcome was

A safer (recommended?) upgrade process when crossing major versions (ie 
5.x to 6.x) is to upgrade to the latest release of the "old" version, 
then to the .0 release of the "new" version, then to the latest release 
of the "new" version.

So from 5.x to 5.5, then from 5.5 to 6.0, then from 6.0 to 6.3.

The devs take great pains to make the transition from "latest X.x to Y.0" 
simple and mostly fool-proof, and the transition from "Y.x to Y.z" simple 
and mostly fool-proof.  But there are no guarantees when going from X.x 
to Y.z.

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Freddie Cash
fjwcash at gmail.com