Re: Schedule for Wednesday's FESCo Meeting (2013-08-14)

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On 15. 8. 2013 at 09:37:57, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 17:32:27 +0200
> 
> Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > what does *not* matter in case of "yum distro-sync" because it does
> > also downgrades and if fedup has a problem with it the people who say
> > yum is not officially supported (while no support in any case exists)
> > should ask theirself who in the world needs fedup instead keep
> > fous on *one* well working tool
> > 
> > besides the fact that yum-upgrades are most times better
> > yum is used and tested every single day from thousands
> > of users while "fedup" no normal user touchs half a year
> 
> You misunderstand how fedup works.
> 
> It gathers up the packages you will need to do the upgrade, then
> reboots into a very minimal env and uses yum to do the upgrade.

Actually no, the system is all hacked up and works in a super-abusive way, see 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=979083

-- snip --

> However, fedup is more safe since it's not happening on a running
> system.

Based on the number of bugzillas that come to our team about broken system 
after fedup upgrade, I'm not so sure.

Thanks
Jan
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