Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

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On 09/24/2014 12:22 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 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.
> 

Well, that cannot be the case, since it would leave the users of Spins
completely out in the cold. That's something we've asserted numerous
times now that we won't do.


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