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author | Boris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com> | 2018-12-07 14:15:19 +0200 |
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committer | Boris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com> | 2018-12-07 14:15:19 +0200 |
commit | 39ea3597690e1ece9e0d1f23e8ff200674e2a406 (patch) | |
tree | d31ee2999e2d6801e9ed9092d0d3b08cf02500e5 /UPGRADE.cli | |
parent | 80d52a6d4e5cfd157cc3188996ff5b567d7d4dad (diff) |
Minor install/upgrade documentation improvements
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/UPGRADE.cli b/UPGRADE.cli index 964749c..baa00fa 100644 --- a/UPGRADE.cli +++ b/UPGRADE.cli @@ -28,9 +28,15 @@ We recommend that you use a dirty upgrade for patch releases with the same \c{X.Y} (\c{MAJOR.MINOR}) version and a staged upgrade otherwise. With patch releases we guarantee not to alter the installation file set. -\N|Note that without periodic upgrades your version of the toolchain may -become too old to be able to upgrade itself. In this case you will have to -fall back onto the bootstrap process.| +\N|Without periodic upgrades your version of the toolchain may become too old +to be able to upgrade itself. In this case you will have to fall back onto the +bootstrap process.| + +\N|The below upgrade process does not cover upgrading the \c{baseutils} and +\c{mingw} packages on Windows (see \l{#bootstrap-windows Bootstrapping on +Windows} for details). We recommend using the bootstrap process to upgrade +these packages since all the straightforward upgrade sequences would lead to +either the old toolchain using the new utilities or vice versa.| The dirty upgrade is straightforward: |