498451 - enhance updates verification script to test updates from older versions

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 408453

(Release Engineering :: General, defect)

Description

[juan becerra [:juanb]]

Currently the updates verification script tests whether we can go from the latest release version to the one we are about to ship. It tests partials+fallbacks. Could we enhance the verification script such that we test updating from at least two older versions as well?

For example: if we are testing 3.0.12, have the script verify updates going from 3.0.11->3.0.12(partial and fallback), 3.0.10->3.0.12 (complete+fallback), and at least one older one, like 3.0.older->3.0.12, perhaps randomized.

Comment 1

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

This looks like a dupe of 408453 - what do you think, juan?

And for the record, this would not have helped us catch bug 498273. Update verify does *not* use the in-app 'check for updates' code. It tests the MARs themselves, and updater.exe.