On Wed, 2018-03-07 at 09:13 -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 7, 2018, at 5:52 AM, Igor Gnatenko wrote: > > > > And you forgot: > > 5. Teach DNF to use "target" DNF/RPM stack to perform upgrade (best and > > proper way). > > If you're using yum/dnf inside a container, the natural way to major upgrades is > to just pull the new base image and rebuild, rather than doing update-in-place. > Which has the semantics you're talking about. > > For rpm-ostree, if you have no layered packages, depsolving etc. is not involved > at all, so it's completely immune to this problem. If you have layered packages, > we do still use the libdnf from the booted deployment, but in the end if something > doesn't work you can temporarily drop your layered packages. Down the line we might > try to do some libdnf parts inside a container in the new root, but that's a huge change. There are still a few of us living in the stone age, Colin, who aren't using Fedora in a container *or* using ostree. Shocking, I know, but it's true. :P -- 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 To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
