On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 15:26 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > So, I noticed while doing my first FC5t1 install the upgrades aren't > currently supported in the reworked anaconda. Fair enough; there's a lot of > changes under the hood. But that got me thinking: hey, maybe this is a great > time to get it so that "yum upgrade" can actually easily bring one from one > FC release to the next. (More realistically, maybe FC6 is a great time. But > now might be a time to start thinking about it.) > > I know there's historically been a lot of wacky special-casing in Anaconda, > much of it legacy cruft, and much of it kinda important for, y'know, > actually working upgrades. Unfortunately, a lot of it depends on having the new kernel (or other new part of the system) already running and so is hard or impossible to do on a running system. Think about things like the static dev -> udev transition. [snip] > But overall, seemed like a pretty successful experiment. And, given the > super-short lifespan of FC releases, something I'd really be interested in > having as an option. For some releases, it could work. As a general case based on lots of years of making upgrades work, not a chance in hell. Jeremy -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
