Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

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> There has been some discussion in various forums lately about how we
> will handle fedup upgrades from Fedora 20 to Fedora 21 products.
> 
> Several suggestions have been made that warrant discussion:
> 
>  * Upgrades from Fedora 20 remain non-productized. They pick up
> fedora-release-standard and upgrade only their existing packages.
>  * Upgrades from Fedora 20 become Fedora Workstation systems and have
> the appropriate environment group installed on them. This mechanism
> will not remove any existing packages.
>  * Fedup should provide a selection for which Product (or
> non-productized) version to upgrade to.
> 
> I am personally opposed to forcing all upgrades to become Fedora
> Workstation (even if in general the majority of existing deployments
> are desktop/laptop machines).
> 
> I think either the first option (easy) or the last option (requiring
> fedup changes) will be preferable. In the selectable case, I think
> that fedup should operate as a non-productized upgrade unless
> otherwise specified at the command-line. If we pass --server,
> - --workstation, --cloud, it should upgrade existing packages as well as
> installing the complete set of the @^fedora-$PRODUCT-environment comps
> environment group.

Maybe we can go with first option and say, upgrades to products are not
supported, please reinstall. It's new beginning and say non-productized
update support will be gone in F22 timeframe and only productized updates
will be allowed.

In Czech we say "Když se kácí strom, létají třísky" - Google Translate
is your friend :).

Jaroslav

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