On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 13:37 -0400, Will Woods wrote: > Start "live-updater" tool > - Checks installed packages, as anaconda does > - Downloads all updated packages > - (Alternately: use a DVD iso and it would only I wouldn't even make it a tool you manually start - integrate into the pirut update mode so when the next version of Fedora comes out, you get a notification and it offers to start downloading it in the background. (I also think pirut should be downloading regular updates in the background instead of a window) > download the packages you're missing.) > - Grab kernel/initrd (from mirror or DVD iso) > - update grub.conf, adding special flag(s) for anaconda > Reboot into anaconda > - Upgrade filesystems, perform other fixups that require unmounted fs > - Mount target filesystem label > - Upgrade using previously-downloaded packages / iso image > > The downside is that it requires a few gigs of free drive space, A few gigs? Couldn't we download just a CD size image? I think it's kind of silly that Fedora makes DVD images so prominent in the download page - who actually wants to download *everything*? I know I sure don't want GNOME+KDE+XFCE for example. The live CD images are much nicer. Now, handing out DVDs works well at conferences or between friends, but I think these are a pretty small percentage of the way Fedora is distributed. Also if someone picks this up, I would try hard to make it something scriptable so a regression tester can try periodic upgrades during the development process and see how they go. (Recently become a fan of writing tests as early as possible again =)) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
