On Friday, May 27, 2011 10:24:59 AM UTC-7, Nils Bruin wrote: > > I tried a "sage -upgrade" on a pristine 4.7.rc4 install to get to 4.7 > and I got hg "unresolved" and "uncommitted changes" problems left and > right. Since "sage -upgrade" duly warns that it offers no guarantees, > that's not really a bug, but given that I didn't do anything with that > 4.7.rc4 other than build it and run "make ptestlong", I'm wondering if > the upgrade procedure can ever succeed with the new(?) hg repositories > in place. >
For a while now, I think that upgrading has only reliably worked from any stable release (or earlier) to a new release, so these sorts of upgrades should work (I hope): 4.6.2 --> 4.7 4.6.2 --> 4.7.alpha2 4.6.2.alpha1 --> 4.7 4.6.2.alpha1 --> 4.7.alpha2 4.5 --> 4.7 (etc.) On the other hand, upgrading between preleases of the same version (4.7.alpha1 --> 4.7.alpha3) or from a prerelease to the stable release of the same version (4.7.alpha1 --> 4.7) isn't going to work. This is how Jeroen has been designing the prereleases and the stable versions: each is based on the previous stable version, not the intermediate alphas or rcs. At least that's how I understand it. -- John -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
