On Fri, 2014-01-03 at 02:22 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Hi, > > Adam Williamson wrote: > > As a 'meta' note, I think a factor that contributes to all of the above > > factors may be a lack of understanding outside a very few people as to > > precisely how the entire fedup process works: speaking personally, I > > certainly wasn't acquainted with all the subtleties until investigating > > this and other issues (not that I'd confidently claim to be an expert > > even now!) I think beyond Will Woods (obviously) and possibly Tim Flink > > (who did a lot of early fedup testing) and Dennis Gilmore (who tends to > > be the one generating the upgrade initramfs), possibly no-one really > > entirely understood the whole process. > > That leads us to the question of why we don't simply endorse the direct yum > (or dnf) method, which people do understand… Only if you like asking and answering the same question twenty times, which we know you do, Kevin. The answer that was given the last 19 times is still valid: because /usrmove, and because grub->grub2, and because other things that cannot be handled via a yum upgrade. It doesn't really work to tell people 'you can yum upgrade with 13 and 14 and 15 but NOT 16 and 17 but NOT 18 and 19 and 20 and 21 but NOT 22'... -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
