On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> 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. That's a lame excuse really. "Please reinstall" is more or less telling users "go away". So that's not really an option (there aren't even any technical reasons for it). -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
