Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Le mercredi 30 novembre 2005 à 22:10 -0500, Jeremy Katz a écrit : > > On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 23:00 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > > And then a full release upgrade would just be > > > 1. update packages via yum > > > 2. the new fedora-release file depends on one or several firstboot > > > packages, which are therefore installed during the yum upgrade > > > 3. on installation these packages create a "distro upgrade" bootloader > > > entry, make it default and ask to reboot > > > 4. user reboots on this entry and the actions which can not be done on a > > > live system are performed. > > > > Except what happens when one of the packages you're updating requires > > some of the other changes that would have to be done by one your > > "firstboot packages"? This isn't some sort of philosophical debate -- > > it's something that comes up at least every other release if not every > > release. > I won't say such a thing does not exist, but continuous yumable rolling > rawhide would not be possible in this case, and my experience is you can > "forget" to go through anaconda most of the releases. Haven't ever seen a "continuous yumable rolling rawhide". Not for any longish strech of time, in any case. More "rollercoaster" than "rolling", in any case. ;-) [No, I am /not/ complaining! Rawhide is wonderful... when it works ;-] -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
