[wildfly-dev] Patching from previous versions ?

[Arun Gupta]

On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Brian Stansberry
<brian.stansberry at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 6/5/14, 5:54 AM, Arun Gupta wrote:
>> When 8.2 becomes available, will there be a patch available that will
>> allow to upgrade from 8.1 only or 8.0 as well ?
>>
>> And similarly for future versions, will the patch only be available
>> from the previous version or all previous major/minor versions ?
>>
>
> My 2 cents.
>
> I don't see us supporting updating across major versions. Even if by
> some chance we could, I doubt we'd want to set that precedent.

So update will be only for minor versions ?

>
> As for updating from 8.0 to 8.2 in one update file, that's technically
> possible, but I'm not sure it's worth the effort. A update for 8.0->8.2
> would essentially consist of the 8.0->8.1 update and then the 8.1->8.2
> update packaged in the same file. That would be a really big file.

I think asking the users to update from 8.0 -> 8.1 and then to 8.2 is
reasonable. But is that the current thought process ?

Arun

>
>> Arun
>>
>
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