On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 21:35 -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > 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) I thought yum-updatesd had a flag to download updates in the background but I might be mistaken about that.. But yeah, having this integrated into puplet/pirut *would* be extra-cool. > > 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. Right, but assuming that you installed a fairly standard package set you'd still have to download upgrades for all those packages on your system. If you installed 2 CDs worth of packages initially you're gonna need to download 2 CDs worth of updates to your hard drive - that's 1-2GB of free space you'll need to hold the packages. Plus extra space for actually performing the updates. So.. a couple gigs of free drive space is needed for temporary storage of updates. > 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 =)) Oh definitely. In fact, that's the main reason *I* care about this feature. Live-ish upgrades would be a cool feature and save our users some time, but making system upgrades easier to script is the icing on the cake for me. -w
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