Feature #12493

Have Tails Upgrader automatically point to manual upgrade if running from an old version

Added by sajolida 2017-04-29 17:42:26 . Updated 2019-11-27 19:15:13 .

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Confirmed
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Low
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Start date:
2017-04-29
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Upgrader
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Description

See Bug #12392.

“Old” here means “definitely too old to have an IUK”. We are currently publishing IUKs for 2 versions so version older than 12 weeks will never have IUKs.

Note that we might decide to publish more IUKs in the future. So it would be good to have a mechanism in place to remember updating this setting if we decide to ship more IUKs.

This mechanism would also become obsolete if we decide to do Feature #11131#note-6.

Subtasks

Related issues

Related to Tails - Feature #12492: Instruct people with a version older than n-2 to do manual upgrade in /doc/upgrade/error/check Resolved 2017-04-29
Related to Tails - Feature #14544: Spend software developer time on smallish UX improvements In Progress 2018-08-31
Related to Tails - Feature #15288: Document tricks for power users vs. bigger downloads for automatic upgrade Confirmed 2018-02-05

History

#1 Updated by sajolida 2017-04-29 17:44:20

  • Tracker changed from Bug to Feature

#2 Updated by sajolida 2017-04-29 17:44:35

  • related to Bug #12392: Correct documentation regarding 'Check for updates' added

#3 Updated by sajolida 2017-04-29 17:52:54

  • related to deleted (Bug #12392: Correct documentation regarding 'Check for updates')

#4 Updated by sajolida 2017-04-29 17:52:58

  • blocks Bug #12392: Correct documentation regarding 'Check for updates' added

#5 Updated by Anonymous 2017-06-28 10:37:59

  • Subject changed from Have Tails Upgrader automatically points to manual upgrade if running from an old version to Have Tails Upgrader automatically point to manual upgrade if running from an old version

#6 Updated by Anonymous 2017-06-28 10:48:00

Next steps: Tails Upgrader should point to the manual upgrade if users are trying to upgrade a Tails version that is older than 12 weeks.

See https://tails.boum.org/contribute/how/code/
Code lives here: https://git-tails.immerda.ch/iuk/
Manual Upgrade we need to link to: https://tails.boum.org/upgrade/tails

#7 Updated by intrigeri 2017-06-28 10:58:28

> Next steps: Tails Upgrader should point to the manual upgrade if users are trying to upgrade a Tails version that is older than 12 weeks.

I think “12 weeks” needs to be adjusted a bit since we now provide automatic upgrades for the last 2 releases.

#8 Updated by Anonymous 2017-06-30 13:06:57

  • related to Feature #12492: Instruct people with a version older than n-2 to do manual upgrade in /doc/upgrade/error/check added

#9 Updated by sajolida 2017-10-02 17:46:45

  • blocked by deleted (Bug #12392: Correct documentation regarding 'Check for updates')

#10 Updated by Anonymous 2018-01-15 16:32:26

Next steps: Tails Upgrader should point to the manual upgrade if users are trying to upgrade a Tails version that is older than version n-2.

See https://tails.boum.org/contribute/how/code/
Code lives here: https://git-tails.immerda.ch/iuk/
Manual Upgrade we need to link to: https://tails.boum.org/upgrade/tails

#11 Updated by sajolida 2019-09-19 00:33:49

  • related to Feature #14544: Spend software developer time on smallish UX improvements added

#12 Updated by sajolida 2019-11-27 19:15:13

Once we’ll have endless upgrades (Feature #15281), this will become a duplicate of solving Feature #15288 in the code instead of the doc, as suggested in Feature #15288#note-9.

#13 Updated by sajolida 2019-11-27 19:15:27

  • related to Feature #15288: Document tricks for power users vs. bigger downloads for automatic upgrade added