[Release QA] Test Beta2 -> Beta3 upgrade

[nielx]

Test the upgrade path by changing the repository URLs.

To be tested:

• x86_gcc2h
• x86_64
• EFI boots after upgrade (i.e. do the beta 1 and beta 2 EFI bootloader still boot the beta 3 packages?)

[Coldfirex]

I assume we can't start testing this until we start the RC stage before Beta 3?

[nielx]

Replying to Coldfirex:

I assume we can't start testing this until we start the RC stage before Beta 3?

It makes most sense to do this as close to the release as possible. There might still be changes made to the Installer, to the kernel and the bootloader, and/or package management that may be problematic, and if you start testing now you might miss those.

[pulkomandy]

Well, you can do a test already to anticipate any issues. And we can do another test later on to make sure we didn't introduce any extra issues.

[Coldfirex]

So, for right now, you mean Beta 2 to nightly upgrade I assume?

[pulkomandy]

yes

[kallisti5]

Version is R1/beta3 now :-)

I documented the upgrade process in #17024. I performed an upgrade of a R1/beta2 system to R1/beta3 successfully using it.

The bios_ia32 bootloader works just fine between R1/beta2 and R1/beta3. The EFI bootloader is indeed a big question. Access to it still isn't easy since https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/15918 is still incomplete.

[nielx]

I upgraded both a (reasonably clean) gcc2h and x86_64 beta 2 env, so I would say this works.