On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 20:02 -0600, Ed Wilts wrote: > > I suspect the FC3 upgrade was tested on an unpatched FC2 install and > on > a fully up-to-date FC2 install. I would be surprised if Red Hat did > any > testing with some packages up to date and some not. > > Almost all of the errata I remember reading state that the assumption > is > that all previous errata have been applied. > I thought FC was more than an errata update, and that Anaconda was a little better at these things than rpm or up2date. I do recall that when up2date was new it proved well able to break a system. Unless the release notes say otherwise (and I have read them, though not searching for this topic) then there's no reason to suppose it matters.