[Yum] yum dist-upgrade planned?

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On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 09:58 -0600, m g wrote:
> Are there any plans for yum to be capable of something similar to
> Debian's apt dist-upgrade?  Given how much more volatile Fedora
> development is than Debian's, I have a feeling that such a feature
> wouldn't be simple ... but that same volatility is what would make it
> so nice to have an easier way of upgrading from major release to major
> release.

There are a large number of items that simply cannot be done on a
running system.

not the least of which includes migrating lvm types, changing partition
information, etc.

it's just not reasonable or safe to do those things on running systems.

-sv



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